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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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    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Terry Goodkind
    “People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
    tags: public-opinion, willful-ignorance, wizard-s-rules
    1168 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32143 likes

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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
    tags: happiness, love
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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: books, reading
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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
    ― Stéphane Mallarmé
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
    tags: family, food, thanksgiving
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    Terry Goodkind
    “If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
    tags: adversity, sword, truth
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    Terry Goodkind
    “I am who I am; no more, no less.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
    tags: inspirational, self-awareness, self-realization
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    Terry Goodkind
    “Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
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    Terry Goodkind
    “Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
    tags: truth
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    Terry Goodkind
    “Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
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    Terry Goodkind
    “Only those you trust can betray you.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
    tags: betrayal, nathan, trust
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    Terry Goodkind
    “Your life is your own. Rise up and live it.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen
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    Terry Goodkind
    “Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
    tags: kahlan
    277 likes

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    Terry Goodkind
    “Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
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    Terry Goodkind
    “Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
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    Terry Goodkind
    “...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Soul of the Fire
    tags: fantasy, wizard-s-rules, zedd
    193 likes

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    Terry Goodkind
    “Fate does not seek our consent.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Blood of the Fold
    tags: sword-of-truth, zedd
    142 likes

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    Terry Goodkind
    “Nothing is ever easy”
    ― Terry Goodkind
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    Terry Goodkind
    “We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Stone of Tears
    tags: inspirational, kahlan, philosophical
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    Terry Goodkind
    “The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
    tags: sword-of-truth
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