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    Carl Sagan
    “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: love, mercy
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: poetry, prose, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
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    John Milton
    “For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
    ― John Milton, Areopagitica
    tags: books, censorship, ideas, intellect
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  • #5
    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: opportunity
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  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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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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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: humor, semantics, suspicion
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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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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
    "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Ray Bradbury
    “With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: thinking
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    Ray Bradbury
    “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: reality-bothered
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    Ray Bradbury
    “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Ray Bradbury
    “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: imagination, quality, skill, writers, writing
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    Ray Bradbury
    “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: books, magic, universe
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. ”
    ― Ray Bradbury
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    Ray Bradbury
    “First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: inspirational
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
    tags: life, love
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: frustration, humor, laughter
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor, truth
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: activism, life, philosophical
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: high-school, terror
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “To be is to do - Socrates

    To do is to be - Sartre

    Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: drunk-dialing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Science is magic that works.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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  • #30
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
    460 likes



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