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  • #1
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Mary Kay Andrews
    “Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.”
    ― Mary Kay Andrews, Blue Christmas
    tags: humor
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  • #3
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Matt Haig
    “Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another. The earliest humans walked around naked with no problem. Certain humans, in humid rainforests mainly, still do so. So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode.

    Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.”
    ― Matt Haig, The Humans
    tags: humans, madness
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    Alan Bradley
    “Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
    tags: friendship, humor, vocabulary
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    Alan Bradley
    “If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
    tags: inspirational
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    Alan Bradley
    “You are unreliable, Flavia,' he said. 'Utterly unreliable.'
    Of course I was! It was one of the things I loved most about myself.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
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  • #8
    Afia Atakora
    “Cain and Abel were not brothers, not twins. They were...two sides of the same person, good and evil warring against its own inclinations. The same struggle was borne out in every person, over and over, from the very most beginning of time, and you could only answer for yourself which brother would win.”
    ― Afia Atakora, Conjure Women
    tags: bible, biblical, proverbial-wisdom, proverbs, wisdom
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  • #9
    Robert Repino
    “She had underestimated the human capacity for self-destruction.”
    ― Robert Repino, Mort(e)
    tags: humanity, self-destruction
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  • #10
    William Faulkner
    “In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn't want to touch with a ten-foot fence rail”
    ― William Faulkner, Knight's Gambit
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  • #11
    L.R. Lam
    “Everyone had grown used to giving orders to the pleasant-voiced feminine robots. Alexa, Siri, Sophia, Sage, do this for me. A perky ‘okay’, and your wish was her command. They’d all been doing it for years before women started realising the men in their lives had been conditioned to do the same to them. And by then it was too late.”
    ― Laura Lam, Goldilocks
    tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, dystopia, feminism, robots
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    L.R. Lam
    “It hadn’t happened in a moment, but a series of moments, as slow and insidious as the melting of the ice caps. Women had been ushered out of the workplace, so subtly that few noticed until it was too late. There had been no grand lowering of an iron curtain, with passports voided and bank accounts emptied. There had been a few men in sharp suits quoting scripture with silver tongues, but it was cursory, just enough to wrangle part of the Christian vote. Really, they were afraid of women. Or hated them. Wasn’t that much the same thing? The country saw those angry men as a fringe movement right up until one was elected president.”
    ― Laura Lam, Goldilocks
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    Adam Becker
    “Science, done right, works hard to respect absolutely no authority at all other than experience and empirical data. It never succeeds entirely, but it comes closer and has a better track record than any other method we apes have found for learning about the world around us.”
    ― Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
    tags: empiricism, realism, science
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: inspirational, soul, spiritual-growth
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    Amit Ray
    “You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.”
    ― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
    tags: advaita, advaita-vedanta, alone, aloneness, awakening, awareness, enlightenment, eternal, eternal-life, eternal-truths, everyone, everyone-belongs, global-oneness, insights, inspirational, interconnectedness, life, life-lessons, loneliness, motivational, non-duality, nonduality, oneness, spiritual-growth, spiritual-quotes, spirituality, unity, vedanta, wisdom, wisdom-quotes
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    Amit Ray
    “God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.”
    ― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
    tags: god, inspirational, mediation, meditations, motivational, silence, spiritual, spiritual-growth, spirituality
    144 likes

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    Nnedi Okorafor
    “Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.”
    ― Nnedi Okorafor, Zahrah the Windseeker
    tags: nnedi-okorafor
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: life, self-actualization, self-image
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  • #19
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: attraction, rumi, sufi
    5847 likes



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