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    “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
    ― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
    tags: bible, love
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: hate, love
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Anne Lamott
    “Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”
    ― Anne Lamott
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #6
    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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  • #9
    “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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    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, imagination
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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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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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #15
    Stephenie Meyer
    “He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
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  • #16
    “Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives”
    ― Torey Hayden
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    Mem Fox
    “Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.”
    ― Mem Fox
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: adolescence, awkwardness, emotion, school
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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  • #21
    “Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!”
    ― Charles Ogden
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    Graham Chapman
    “You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.”
    ― Monty Python
    tags: libraries
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    “In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.”
    ― Linton Weeks
    tags: librarians, libraries, washington-post
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: librarians, libraries
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
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    Garth Stein
    “I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid package that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What's wrong with that idea?”
    ― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
    tags: evolution, humans, spirituality
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
    ― J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: age, family
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  • #29
    David Levithan
    “need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.”
    ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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    Myron Uhlberg
    “My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.”
    ― Myron Uhlberg, Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
    tags: deafness, father, memories, parents
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    Myron Uhlberg
    “Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.”
    ― Myron Uhlberg, Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
    tags: asl, language, sign
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