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    Spider Robinson
    “...one of the secret masters of
    the world: a librarian. They
    control information. Don't ever p**s one off.”
    ― Spider Robinson, The Callahan Touch
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    Spider Robinson
    “Shared pain is lessened.
    Shared joy is increased.
    Thus we refute entropy.”
    ― Spider Robinson
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    Gore Vidal
    “Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. ”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Screening History
    tags: america, american-ts, americans, educated-voters, elections, hope, political-education, politics, vote
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    Gore Vidal
    “There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
    tags: inspirational
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
    ― Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
    tags: causation, fact, relief, results, sea, theory
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: attitude, humor, inspirational
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: change
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A joke is a very serious thing.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor, life
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    Walter Benjamin
    “History is written by the victors.”
    ― Walter Benjamin
    tags: history
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    Charles Portis
    “Nothing I like to do pays well.”
    ― Charles Portis, True Grit
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    “What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!”
    ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    tags: music
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    Audre Lorde
    “If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: happiness
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    Ray Bradbury
    “With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: thinking
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: cynical, life, truth
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    George Burns
    “You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
    ― George Burns
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “The beginning is always today.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Richard Wright
    “Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
    ― Richard Wright, Native Son
    tags: self-realization
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: imagination
    2299 likes



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