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    Karl Marx
    “Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

    Workingmen of all countries unite!”
    ― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
    tags: communism, communist-revolution, politics, proletariat, ruling-classic, tremble, unite
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
    tags: inspirational
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    Stephen King
    “Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms, and underneath (not so deep, either), they’re always afraid someone is going to steal their presents and eat their birthday cake.”
    ― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: america, economy, usa
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    Karl Marx
    “It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.”
    ― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
    tags: capitalism, ethics, free-trade
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Laurie R. King
    “I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head...”
    ― Laurie R. King
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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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    Garrison Keillor
    “It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
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    Jeff Shaara
    “All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time’.”
    ― Jeff Shaara quoting Colonel "Chesty" Puller
    tags: historical-fiction-based-on-fact, historical-fiction-history-war, historical-fiction-novel, history-of-korea, history-of-the-united-states, humor, korean-war, military, us-marine-corps, warfare
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    “..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?”
    ― James Lee Burke Black Cherry Blues
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    Taylor Brown
    “It wasn’t dying that she feared, it was dying bad: leaving her grandboy alone in the world, unprotected, his wounds unhealed. Death, which walked ever through these mountains, knew she would not go down easy.”
    ― Taylor Brown, Gods of Howl Mountain
    tags: granny-may, historical-fiction, southern-fiction, southern-gothic
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    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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    Francis Bacon
    “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: hope
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Sara Paretsky
    “The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.”
    ― Sara Paretsky, Bleeding Kansas
    tags: adolescence, endurance, experience, inspirational
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Roads go ever ever on
    Under cloud and under star
    Yet feet that wandering have gone
    Turn at last to home afar.
    Eyes that fire and sword have seen
    And horror in the halls of stone
    Look at last on meadows green
    And trees and hills they long have known.”
    ― JRR Tolkien
    tags: inspirational-quote
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    Katherine Arden
    “Having the world as you wish--that is not for the young," he added, "They want too much.”
    ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
    tags: brilliant-prose, fantasy, figurative-language, glorious, intimate, luminous, magical, magical-horses
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Rebecca West
    “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.”
    ― Rebecca West, The Young Rebecca: Writings, 1911-1917
    tags: clichés, empowerment, feminism, opinions, women, womens-liberation
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    Helen Simonson
    “America wielded her huge power in the world with a brash confidence that reminded him of a toddler who has got hold of a hammer.”
    ― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
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    Stephen Markley
    “Life itself has become the final disposable, exploitable resource. We will do anything. Level whole mountains, erase whole species, relocate mighty rivers, burn forests to the ground, change the pH of the water, blanket ourselves in toxic chemistry. It took two million years for our species just to stand up and only five hundred to do the rest. Our culture is one of abundance, of entitlement, and basically little else. We've put our birthright at risk because we don't know how to control ourselves. Our lust.”
    ― Stephen Markley, Ohio
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    Stephen Markley
    “New Canaan had this look, like a magazine after it’s tossed on the fire, the way the pages blacken and curl as they begin to burn, but just before the flames take over.”
    ― Stephen Markley, Ohio
    tags: fiction
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