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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Terry Pratchett
    “No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
    "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
    "What?"
    "Oh, you'd like something simpler?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
    tags: absurd, humor, interrogation, police
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: fantasy
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    Terry Pratchett
    “In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
    tags: humor, literary-criticism, school-lessons
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: books
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    Terry Pratchett
    “People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
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    Terry Pratchett
    “And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
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    Terry Pratchett
    “She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
    tags: education, school
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: authors, mainstream-lit, science-fiction, sf, writers, writing
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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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    Neil Gaiman
    “This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Neil Gaiman
    “We owe it to each other to tell stories.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: books, stories
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    Neil Gaiman
    “We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    Alphonse Karr
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
    ― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden
    tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns
    2364 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Contact
    tags: optimism, seti, universe
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  • #26
    “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.”
    ― Roger Crawford
    tags: challenges, choices, defeat, optimism
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    Hugh Downs
    “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
    ― Hugh Downs
    tags: happiness, optimism, way-to-be
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    Rick Steves
    “Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.”
    ― Rick Steves
    tags: optimism, positivity
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  • #29
    Louis D. Brandeis
    “Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.”
    ― Louis D. Brandeis
    tags: hopeful, optimism, tenacity
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    Gene Roddenberry
    “It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.”
    ― Gene Roddenberry
    tags: humanism, innovation, optimism
    93 likes



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