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Thom Swennes

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Thom’s Quotes

“Teach the young people how to think, not what to think.”
― Sidney Sugarman

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“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
― Arnold Lobel

tags: books, reading

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“Friendship is the best prerequisite for love.”
― T.C. Swennes

tags: inspirational

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“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.”
― Alice Morse Earle

tags: attributed-no-source

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“Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.”
― Miriam Allen de Ford

tags: differences, fantasy, science-fiction

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