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  • #1
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #2
    Dorothy Parker
    “It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #3
    Judy Blume
    “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
    Judy Blume

  • #4
    C.G. Jung
    “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #5
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #6
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #7
    Lisa Kleypas
    “Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.”
    Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy

  • #8
    Lawrence Clark Powell
    “Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
    Lawrence Clark Powell

  • #9
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
    Robert Heinlein

  • #10
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #11
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #12
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #13
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #14
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Butterflies are self propelled flowers.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #15
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. ”
    Robert Heinlein

  • #16
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children

  • #17
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #18
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #19
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
    Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    Reni Eddo-Lodge
    “The mess we are living in is a deliberate one. If it was created by people, it can be dismantled by people, and it can be rebuilt in a way that serves all, rather than a selfish, hoarding few.”
    Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

  • #24
    Gustave Flaubert
    “I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #25
    “Light is never lost in the universe; it just flows from one vessel to the next.”
    Matshona Dhliwayo

  • #26
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #27
    Terry Pratchett
    “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
    Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

  • #28
    Bill Watterson
    “In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #29
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
    Neil DeGrasse Tyson

  • #30
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson



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