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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity
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    T.H. White
    “The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
    ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
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    John Gregory Brown
    “There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.”
    ― John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
    tags: daughters
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: circles, courage, fortitude, strength, valor
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza, Spinoza: Political Treatise
    tags: cancelling, contrapoints, humanity, love, philosophy, shame, understanding
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    Dante Alighieri
    “So that the Universe felt love,
    by which, as somebelieve,
    the world has many times been turned to chaos.
    And at that moment this ancient rock,
    here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
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    John Steinbeck
    “And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
    tags: absence, loss
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    John Steinbeck
    “When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: coming-of-age, fall-of-the-gods, growing-up, parents
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    John Steinbeck
    “There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: truth
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “When you tolerate disrespectful people you disrespect yourself.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: assertiveness, belittling, disrespect, disrespectful-people, doormat, insults, self-respect, tolerance
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “Where there is no consciousness, there is no time.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest
    tags: being, consciousness, perception, quantum-physics, reality, relativity, space-time-continuum, time
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest
    tags: experience, fear, overcoming-fear, personal-growth, quotable, self-control, wisdom
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest
    tags: conscious-awareness, consciousness, perception, perception-of-reality, reality, relativity, self-awareness, space-time, state-of-consciousness, thought
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest
    tags: bitterness, demanding-justice, injustice, justice, quotable, revenge, unforgiveness, vengeance, vengefulness
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform for training.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars
    tags: asleep, chi-ro-jin, dreaming, dreams, experience, lucid-dreams, lucidity, mental-awareness, passage-of-time, psychic-powers, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, sleep, telepathy, time, training, waking
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “By all means be compassionate but never allow the envious into your inner circle.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: compassion, compassionate, envious-people, envy, inner-circle, sensible-thinking, wisdom-quote
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “Attraction is never random.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: attraction, attractiveness, beauty, infatuation, love, love-at-first-sight, pheromones, physical-attraction, subconscious
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “When you repay evil with evil, you become evil.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: ethics, evil, malice, morality, quotable, retribution, revenge, wisdom
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: ashes-to-ashes, fiction, grim, real, reality, strange
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “When people speak, listen carefully and pay particular attention to what they are not saying.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: listening, listening-quotes, quotable-quotes, speaking, unsaid-words
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “A disloyal friend is no friend.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: disloyal, disloyalty, friend, friendship, friendship-quotes
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “Not believing in something does not protect you from it.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: belief, belief-quotes, climate-change, disbelief, history, protection, religion, science, security, truth
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “I don't like zombie movies, they're just plain silly.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: dislike, films, movies, silliness, silly, zombies
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: awareness, bullying, confidence, potential, put-downs, quotable, self-confidence, self-esteem
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars
    tags: chi-ro-jin, fear, fear-of-death, fear-of-failure, fear-of-unknown, psychic, psychic-powers, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, telepathy, wisdom
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “Envy suggests inferiority.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: envy, inferiority, jealousy
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars
    tags: burying, chi-ro-jin, head, invisibility, invisible, quotable, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, suffocation, wisdom, wisdom-quote
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: enemies, enemy, false-friends, friends, friendship, friendship-quotes, mistakes, naivete, poor-judgement
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: exploitation, greed, love, loving, materialism, materialistic, money, people, using
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