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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Albert Einstein
    “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Janet Fitch
    “The phoenix must burn to emerge.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: death, failure, rebirth
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll
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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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Garth Stein
    “That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”
    ― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
    tags: destiny, ignorance
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: blame, guilt
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier to see something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow. When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: society
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    Frank Herbert
    “Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: belief, kindlehighlight, knowledge, manipulation, propoganda, truth
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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    George Orwell
    “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: military, police, violence
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    Stacy Schiff
    “As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man than many of them.”
    ― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life
    tags: democracy, monarchy, politics
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    Stacy Schiff
    “When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.”
    ― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life
    tags: morality, snakes, woman
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “~Do you like him much?
    ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults.
    ~Is he?
    ~All boys are.
    ~More than girls?
    ~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Villette
    tags: boys, girls, love, relationships, romance
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    Stieg Larsson
    “There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire
    tags: lisbeth-salander
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: king, leadership
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu
    tags: men, power, women
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    Douglas Adams
    “This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: life, sci-fi
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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    Charles Kingsley
    “Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.”
    ― Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies
    tags: belief, dinosaurs, dragons, impossible, wisdom
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    Philippa Gregory
    “He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.”
    ― Philippa Gregory, The Boleyn Inheritance
    tags: mothers, spinsters, women
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  • #29
    Robert Jordan
    “Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers
    tags: love, men
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    Lawrence Durrell
    “You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.”
    ― Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
    tags: happiness, pleasure, tragedy
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