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“They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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“A warning is in order. Reject any teaching that even suggests material wealth, physical health, or favorable circumstances have anything to do with the amount of faith you have or how pleased God happens to be with you. And beware those who teach that financial donations will unlock an endless abundance of God’s blessings. They are false shepherds who will rob you of your money and destroy your relationship with God. The “faith” they proclaim is a toxic faith.”
― Charles R. Swindoll, Great Lives: Jesus: The Greatest Life of All

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“I've always said that you know you're a poet when you type an em dash and you hit the delete button, and you type a colon and you hit the delete button, and you type an em dash and you hit the delete button, and you type a colon and you hit the delete button. If you can do that for about three hours straight, trying to figure out which one is the best one, if you can do that for three hours and call that a good time, then you're probably a poet.”
― Jericho Brown

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#4

“Ah tol yuh t leave them Reds erlone! They don mean nobody no good! When men starts t deny Gawd, nothin good kin come from em!”
― Richard Wright, Uncle Tom's Children

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#5

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: dreams

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#6

“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?”
― Anonymous, The Upanishads

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#7

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: humor, perspective, science

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#9

“Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

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#10

“Even God cannot change the past.”
― Agathon

tags: c-448-c-440-bc

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#11

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: inspirational, writing

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#12

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: heaven, hell, paradise

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#13

“geniza is that these works, like people, are living things, possessing an element of the sacred about them—and therefore when they “die,” or become worn out, they must be honored and protected from profanation.”
― Adina Hoffman, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

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“Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

tags: evil

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#15

“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
― Douglas Adams

tags: music, power-of-music, universe

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#16

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

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#17

“In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
― Aeschylus

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#18

“Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.”
― Anaxagoras

tags: a-god, naturalism

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#19

“On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

tags: apples

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#20

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

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#21

“The most valuable skill we can learn in our lives is to unlearn what is untrue.”
― Antisthenes

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#22

“Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.”
― Brian Aldiss, The Dark Light Years

tags: civilisation, cleanliness, excreta, hygiene

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#23

“An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time

tags: crowds, isolation, loneliness

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#24

“Battling a sickness of the spirit was like standing in a quicksand and beating it with a stick.”
― Isaac Asimov, The End of Eternity

tags: 1955

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#25

“As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.”
― Alcibiades

tags: contraries, contrary, delight, delights, happiness, happy, opposite, opposites

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#26

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: attributed-no-source

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#27

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: humor, writing

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#28

“You can't understand human motivation. You can only understand your damned machines because you're a machine yourself, with skin on.”
― Isaac Asimov, Robot Visions

tags: self-criticism

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#29

“The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel

tags: nature, simple-living, transcendentalism

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#30

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: education, learning, lifelong-learning, self-education

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