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“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

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“A culture finds the gods it needs.”
― Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Norse Myths

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“To comport oneself with perfect propriety in Polygonal society, one ought to be a Polygon oneself.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

“Doubtless we cannot see that other higher Spaceland now, because we have no eye in our stomachs.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
― Howard Thurman

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde