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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin
    tags: books, reading
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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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
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
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    Alice Poon
    “Look at the flowing water. Water is humble. It always heads to a low point. Water is soft, formless and flexible. It slides meekly and wittily around rocks, and it nurtures the plants on the sides. That way, it is content and it sings. If you are humble, wise and nurturing like water, you will not feel shame. You will have peace.”
    ― Alice Poon, Tales of Ming Courtesans
    tags: gender-roles, sexism, social-injustice
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    Henry Miller
    “Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
    ― Henry Miller
    tags: life
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: god, humor, life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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    Howard Zinn
    “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: nationalism, patriotism, war
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    Daniel Keyes
    “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology
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    Randall Collins
    “It is not literally true that a picture is worth a thousand words. Most people will not see what is in a picture, or will see it through the most readily available visual cliches. It takes training and an analytical vocabulary to talk about what is in a picture, and to know what to look for. A picture is worth a thousand words only for those who already have internalized an adequate vocabulary.”
    ― Randall Collins, Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory
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    Randall Collins
    “The outsider sees details as meaningless, or doesn’t see the details at all. That is what makes most of us outsiders.”
    ― Randall Collins, Napoleon Never Slept: How Great Leaders Leverage Emotional Energy
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    George MacDonald
    “To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
    ― George MacDonald
    tags: trust
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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    Bill Watterson
    “CALVIN:
    Look, Hobbes, I got a magic carpet.

    HOBBES:
    What's so magic about it?

    CALVIN:
    Magic carpets FLY! You can ride them.

    HOBBES:
    Isn't this the rug from the hallway?

    CALVIN:
    Up, Rug!
    Up! Up!

    CALVIN:
    Hey, Look!
    It works!
    Ok, rug, warp factor five.

    HOBBES:
    Is this legal?
    Do you have your registration and proof of insurance?”
    ― Bill Watterson, Yukon Ho!
    tags: childhood, humor, magic-carpet, playing, satire
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    Kālidāsa
    “Today well lived makes every yesterday a memory of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”
    ― Kalidasa
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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    “Ideologies are excuses to keep power, or pretexts to acquire power.”
    ― Durrenmatt, Fr
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    “Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.”
    ― Kate Sheppard
    tags: inspirational, suffrage, suffragettes, vote, voting
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