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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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    Suzanne Somers
    “Codependence - Someone who lives someone else's life.”
    ― Suzanne Somers
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
    tags: america, big-bang, big-bang-theory, church-and-state, creation, creationism, dinosaurs, education, evolution, first-amendment, freedom, freedom-of-religion, intelligent-design, letters, literacy, new-jersey, new-york-times, noah-s-ark, religion, scientific-literacy, teachers, teaching
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: courage, life
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    Yasunari Kawabata
    “Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
    ― Yasunari Kawabata
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    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    ― Niels Bohr
    tags: science
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    Aberjhani
    “The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.”
    ― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
    tags: african-americans, balance, black-history-month, creativity, harlem-renaissance, history, horror, humanity, inspiration, jazz-age, life, national-history-day, philosophy, victory
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    Dorothy West
    “Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.”
    ― Dorothy West, The Wedding
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    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
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    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
    ― Ta-Nehisi Coates
    tags: books, finding-your-way, libraries, library
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    Nina Simone
    “You've got to learn to leave the table
    When love's no longer being served".”
    ― nina simone
    tags: love
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    Audre Lorde
    “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: courage, empowering, fear, feminist, political, powerful, vision, women-strength
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