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#1

“But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

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#2

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

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#3

“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.”
― Ford Maddox Ford

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#4

“It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: librarians, libraries, national-library-week

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#5

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#6

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
― W. H. Auden

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#7

“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .”
― John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States

tags: cherish, knowledge, read, think

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#8

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: beer, drinking, misquote

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#9

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.”
― Alton Brown, Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run

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#10

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty

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#11

“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
― George Will

tags: football, humor

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#12

“Do you know a cure for me?"

"Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water."

"Salt water?" I asked him.

"Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

tags: meaning-of-life

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#13

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

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#15

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: farenheit-451

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#16

“Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: guernica

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#17

“Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”
― William Golding

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#18

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

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#19

“No two persons ever read the same book.”
― Edmund Wilson

tags: books, perspective, reading

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#20

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom

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#21

“I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: feynman, philosophy, scientists

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#22

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading

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#23

“No matter how bad things get, you've got to go on living, even if it kills you.”
― Sholem Aleichem

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#24

“Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?
(Three Penny Opera)”
― Kurt Weill

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#25

“The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”
― J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds

tags: imagination, misattributed-arthur-c-clarke, physics, science, universe

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#26

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
― Isaac Asimov

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#27

“He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.”
― Julia Spencer-Fleming, I Shall Not Want

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#28

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#29

“We had a Corsican wine that had great authority and a low price. It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message.
A Moveable Feast”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#30

“Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage”
― Gloria Steinem

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#31

“Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

tags: hope, inspirational, wise

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