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    Shelby Foote
    “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
    ― Shelby Foote
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    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
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    Karl Popper
    “Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.”
    ― Karl Popper
    tags: science
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
    tags: books, library, literature, reading, words
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
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    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Logan Pearsall Smith
    tags: life, reading
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    Noam Chomsky
    “The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: education, education-system, instituions
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  • #11
    “If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.”
    ― John Berry
    tags: books, libraries, library, reading
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Libraries raised me.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: books, libraries, library, reading
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
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    C.S. Lewis
    “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, old-books, reading
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    Murray N. Rothbard
    “It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.”
    ― Murray N. Rothbard
    tags: economics
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Walt Whitman
    “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: poetry
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    Kasie West
    “His eyes are so intense I want to look away . . . or never look away, I can’t decide.”
    ― Kasie West, The Distance Between Us
    tags: eyes, intense, look-away
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    Murray N. Rothbard
    “I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.”
    ― Murray N. Rothbard
    tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, freedom, government, initiation-of-force, libertarian, liberty, nap, non-aggression-principle, philosophy, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, voluntaryism
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart: Inspirational Thoughts for Living Your Best Life
    tags: achievement, believe-in-yourself, brave, courage, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, talent
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    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: courage, talent
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  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: page-80, talent, writing, youth
    274 likes



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