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“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
― Toni Morrison

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“Then he was wrong, Hurry; very wrong. A man can enjoy plunder peaceably nowhere.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Complete Leatherstocking Tales: All 5 Books

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“There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison

tags: blood, first-sentence, opening-lines, roses

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“Despite everything, it's still you.”
― Toby Fox

tags: affirmations, motivational, reminders, undertale

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“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: silence

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