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    “Ignorance is curable. Refusing to learn is not.”
    ― E. Michael Helms
    tags: bigotry, ignorance, learning, willingness-to-change
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: humor, rhett-butler-to-scarlett, southerners, yankees
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    Charles Dickens
    “Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this …. The quarrel between the North and the South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel."
    --Charles Dickens, 1861 article on the cause of the American Civil War”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: american-civil-war, charles-dickens, northern-aggression, reasons-for, secession
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “… the South is the land of Washington, who made our Nation – of Jefferson, who shaped its direction – and of Robert E. Lee who, after gallant failure, urged those who had followed him in bravery to reunite America in purpose and courage.” --President John F. Kennedy”
    ― President John F. Kennedy
    tags: american-history, american-patriots, patriotism, statesmanship, the-south, truth
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    Robert E. Lee
    “The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.”
    ― Robert E. Lee
    tags: civil-war, despotism, dictatorship, empire, empire-building, predator-nation, presidential-power, reconstruction, ruin, trampling-of-states-rights, unconstitutional, usurpation-of-the-constitution
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    James Webb
    “But to tar the sacrifices of the Confederate soldier as simple acts of racism, and reduce the battle flag under which he fought to nothing more than the symbol of a racist heritage, is one of the great blasphemies of our modern age.”
    ― James Webb, Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
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    C. Mack Lewis
    “After earning a degree in Marketing at Auburn University, I spent the next five years in the business world, which is a polite way of saying that I had eleven jobs in a five-year period, including door to door sales, skip tracing people who didn’t want to be found, repossessing cars and collecting on defaulted student loans. During this five-year period, I did an in-depth study of abnormal psychology and sociopathic behavior – and then I divorced him.”
    ― Author, C. Mack Lewis
    tags: author, biography, humor, mystery, quotes, suspense, thriller
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    Agatha Christie
    “There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
    tags: commitment, creative-process, professionalism, writing
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    April Khaito
    “Writing amounts to removing a piece of yourself and exposing it to criticism. The bravery of that action alone deserves to be looked on with clemency.”
    ― April Khaito
    tags: inspiration, wisdom, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: drinking
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Mark Pettinger
    “Start with a word. A word leads to a sentence, which leads to a paragraph, which leads to a chapter, which leads to a manuscript, which leads to a book..... just start with a word!”
    ― Mark Pettinger, The Decalogue
    tags: writing, writing-process
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    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    ― A.J. Cronin
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    Caisey Quinn
    “Okay, and yeah, he was hot as ten hells and could sing a girl's panties right off of her.”
    ― Caisey Quinn, Girl with Guitar
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    Duncan Whitehead
    “(I'm) Very good in bed. I sleep like a log. --@DuncanWhitehead”
    ― Duncan Whitehead
    tags: humor
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Eugene B. Sledge
    “The Japanese fought to win - it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that if we were to win and survive, we must be trained realistically for it whether we liked it or not. In the post-war years, the U.S. Marine Corps came in for a great deal of undeserved criticism in my opinion, from well-meaning persons who did not comprehend the magnitude of stress and horror that combat can be. The technology that developed the rifle barrel, the machine gun and high explosive shells has turned war into prolonged, subhuman slaughter. Men must be trained realistically if they are to survive it without breaking, mentally and physically.”
    ― E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
    tags: marines, military, okinawa, peleliu, war, wwii
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    “The forest would be very quiet if only a few birds sang.”
    ― Annonymous
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    “From all negative situations is the potential for a positive outcome.”
    ― Karen Mc Dermott
    tags: inspirational
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
    13740 likes

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    Jenn Brink
    “Life is a contact sport. Play or get off the field.”
    ― Jenn Brink
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    Margaret Daley
    “Not problems so much. Just opportunities to learn patience.”
    ― Margaret Daley, Saving Hope
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: beauty, classic-insult, humor, ugly
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    Belle Blackburn
    “Yes, there is a sequel on the way!”
    ― Belle Blackburn
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