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    John Steinbeck
    “But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Groucho Marx
    “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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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

    [Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: atheism, baron-d-holbach, condorcet, d-alembert, d-holbach, deism, denis-diderot, diderot, jean-le-rond-d-alembert, marquis-de-condorcet, paul-henri-d-holbach, platonic, platonic-christianity, protestant
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: freedom, government, politics
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    John Stuart Mill
    “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
    ― John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867
    tags: duty, paraphrased, political, political-philosophy, us-history
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    Thomas Paine
    “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
    ― Thomas Paine
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    Thomas Paine
    “Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”
    ― thomas paine, Rights of Man
    tags: equality, ethics, morality, rights, secular-ethics, secular-morality
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