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  • #1
    Philip Pullman
    “People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.”
    Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials - The Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass

  • #2
    Blaise Pascal
    “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
    Blaise Pascal

  • #3
    Blaise Pascal
    “Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
    Blaise Pascal, Pensées

  • #4
    Thomas Hobbes
    “The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.”
    Thomas Hobbes

  • #5
    Isaac Asimov
    “I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.”
    Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

  • #6
    Isaac Asimov
    “you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.”
    Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

  • #7
    Kathryn Stockett
    “Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”
    Kathryn Stockett, The Help

  • #8
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #9
    Stieg Larsson
    “Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  • #10
    Paulo Coelho
    “It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.”
    Paulo Coelho, Aleph

  • #11
    Rainbow Rowell
    “I just can’t believe that life would give us to each other,’ he said, ‘and then take it back.’

    ‘I can,’ she said. ‘Life’s a bastard.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #12
    Ray Bradbury
    “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #13
    Ray Bradbury
    “With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #14
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis



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