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“The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Bloom Where You're Planted”
― Mary Engelbreit

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

“It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”
― Andrew Jackson

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.”
― Steven Tyler

“We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God's sake feed your children.”
― Alton Brown

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Alas! Earwax!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“Don't mistake me, Treasure. I can offer you many things, but friendship ain't one of them. Now, for once in your life, be a sensible girl and run away.”
― Kady Cross, The Girl in the Steel Corset

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
― Jimi Hendrix

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready... The teacher will Disappear.”
― Tao Te Ching

“He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“Smugglin' that by me? That's like tryin' to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.”
― Dr. Phil McGraw

“He was in the far too familiar position of being amazed by his own stupidity.”
― Thomas Mullen, The Revisionists

“To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.”
― A. Lee Martinez, A Nameless Witch

“There were such sounds as are not heard in daylight—moon sounds and cloud sounds and sounds of dark wind; branches talked and other small voices answered in anxious undertones.”
― Katharine Newlin Burt, Snow-Blind

“The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.”
― Franciscan friar William of Ockham

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.”
― Diane Ravitch

“May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong.”
― Dan George

“Nature is kind to him who goes on foot, and makes him aware of beauties and delights never discovered to the traveller on wheels.”
― Walter White, A July Holiday in Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury