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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Richard Powers
    “Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.”
    ― Richard Powers
    tags: librarians
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    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: change
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  • #5
    “There are times when silence has the loudest voice.”
    ― Leroy Brownlow
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    Dave Barry
    “People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.”
    ― Dave Barry
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    Auguste Rodin
    “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
    ― Auguste Rodin
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: american-politics
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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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    Anne Michaels
    “Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.”
    ― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
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  • #11
    Dean Koontz
    “We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.”
    ― Dean Koontz
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  • #12
    Neil Postman
    “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
    ― Neil Postman
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  • #13
    C.G. Jung
    “The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    Josh Billings
    “To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”
    ― Josh Billings
    tags: children, example, parenting
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  • #15
    Margaret Atwood
    “And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship, inspirational
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    Daniel Handler
    “How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too. ”
    ― Daniel Handler, Adverbs
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"
    Mort thought for a moment.
    "No," he said eventually, "what?"
    There was silence.
    Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Mort
    tags: answers, fate, questions
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: women-inspirational-age
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.”
    ― Terry Pratchett , Jingo
    tags: desert, religion
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  • #23
    Terry Pratchett
    “Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: analogy, joy
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  • #24
    Terry Pratchett
    “Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
    tags: paraphrased
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  • #25
    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
    tags: death, humor, life
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    Scott Adams
    “You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.”
    ― Scott Adams
    tags: food, humor, vegetarian, vegetarianism
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  • #27
    E.M. Forster
    “Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
    tags: adventure
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  • #28
    E.M. Forster
    “Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.”
    ― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
    tags: death, life
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  • #29
    Piers Anthony
    “When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.”
    ― Piers Anthony, Golem in the Gears
    tags: book-lovers, libraries
    82 likes

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  • #30
    Piers Anthony
    “Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.”
    ― Piers Anthony, Bearing an Hourglass
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