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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    Francis Bacon
    “In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
    ― Francis Bacon
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    Rebecca West
    “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
    ― Rebecca West
    tags: feminism, qotd
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    Bruce Lee
    “Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
    ― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
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    Mickey Rooney
    “You will always pass failure on the way to success.”
    ― Mickey Rooney
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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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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    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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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    R.L. LaFevers
    “Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours....”
    ― R.L. LaFevers, Grave Mercy
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: absolution, brooding, guilt, morality, remorse, repentance, wallowing, wrongdoing
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies
    tags: equality, sanity
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: causality, error, intelligence, theories
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza
    tags: chastity, perversion, sex
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
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    Aldous Huxley
    “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Jesting Pilate
    tags: man, read
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend”
    ― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
    tags: doors, huxley, perception
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The Savage nodded, frowning. "You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them...But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy."

    ..."What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Island
    tags: consumerism
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    Aldous Huxley
    “For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: inadequacy-of-words
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Experience teaches only the teachable.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: teaching
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    Aldous Huxley
    “In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: loneliness, self-expression, solitude
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