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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
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    Nelson Mandela
    “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
    ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    John C. Lennox
    “Nonsense remains nonsense, even when talked by world-famous scientists.”
    ― John C. Lennox
    tags: nonsense
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: christianity
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    C.S. Lewis
    “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: christianity, forgiveness, god
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy
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    David Mitchell
    “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    Ben Aaronovitch
    “When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho
    tags: boyhood, intergenerational-relations
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    Douglas Adams
    “A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: life
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    C.S. Lewis
    “God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god-religion-happiness
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: atheism, religion
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, pain
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: lord-of-the-rings, tolkien
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books-reading
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: lotr
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: books, philosophy
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Friedrich Schiller
    “Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?”
    ― Friedrich Schiller, Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua
    tags: lion, roar, sleeping
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    Terry Southern
    “The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
    ― Terry Southern
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    Nelson Mandela
    “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    Nelson Mandela
    “It always seems impossible until it's done.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Nelson Mandela
    “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: freedom, liberty
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    Nelson Mandela
    “Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: leaders
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    Nelson Mandela
    “I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: atonement, saints, sin, sinners
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    Nelson Mandela
    “ As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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