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#1

“But no matter what, strangers never disappointed, because she expected nothing from them. It was the people she knew, who liked and even loved her, who could let her down most cruelly.”
― Shanthi Sekaran, Lucky Boy

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#2

“But very small things could be a big deal within the very small orbits on which they spin.”
― Shanthi Sekaran, Lucky Boy

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#3

“The wounds will be covered by pleasant moments, moments that I used to take for granted. Hopefully, the pleasant moments will become more frequent, and longer lasting. Because if I keep living int the past, I won't survive.”
― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Plum Tree

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#4

“A person sometimes believes she's seen all the way to the bottom of the well of human stupidity, and a reminder that that well apparently has no bottom is sometimes useful.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

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#5

“Boring and unpleasant did not mean a task was 'unfruitful,' a fact a lot of people seemed not to know, or to willfully ignore.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

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#6

“And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Herbert Kretzmer

tags: les-miserables, musical

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#7

“As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: knowledge, les-miserables, mind, stomach, victor-hugo

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#8

“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.”
― Victor Hugo, Fantine

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#9

“There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: action, les-miserables, protest

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#10

“It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

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#11

“Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: discipleship, friendship, internet, news, social-networking

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#12

“With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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#13

“Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: democracy, dry-humor, political-philosophy

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#14

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: essential, happiness, love

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#15

“I asked her if she'd ever wanted children. She told me, "Everybody doesn't get everything." It sounded depressing to me at the time, a statement of defeat. Now admitting it seems like the obvious and essential work of growing up. Everybody doesn't get everything: as natural and unavoidable as mortality.”
― Ariel Levy, The Rules Do Not Apply

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#16

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: einstein, gaiman, god, humor

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#17

“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.”
― Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: humor

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#18

“Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. ”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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#19

“All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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#20

“I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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#21

“It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.”
― Stephen King, Insomnia

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#22

“It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.”
― Stephen King, Insomnia

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#23

“Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.”
― Stephen King, Insomnia

tags: insomnia, sleep, stephen-king

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#24

“The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

tags: dreaming, mind, sanity, sleep, world

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#25

“It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

tags: favorite-author, horror, life, rose-madder, stephen-king

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#26

“Serve others: The heart of the leader is manifested through service to others.”
― Artika R. Tyner, The Lawyer as Leader: How to Plant People and Grow Justice

tags: civil-rights, leadership, social-justice

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