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    Daniel Defoe
    “Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.”
    ― Daniel Defoe
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    Gregory Maguire
    “Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree? ”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Gregory Maguire
    “The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment. ”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Gregory Maguire
    “In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified. ”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Gregory Maguire
    “One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Gregory Maguire
    “There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Gregory Maguire
    “And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: evil, good
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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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    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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    Albert Einstein
    “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Aldous Huxley
    “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
    tags: music
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    Frank Zappa
    “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
    ― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
    tags: music
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state.

    ...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
    tags: church, free, liberal, magazine, men-of-straw, preachers, prison, rotten, school, self-deception, state, straw-men
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    Albert Einstein
    “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: music
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    John Keats
    “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
    Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
    ― John Keats, The Complete Poems
    tags: music, poetry
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    Bob Marley
    “None but ourselves can free our minds.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: bob-marley, inspirational, music, reggae
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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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: love
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Joan Crawford
    “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
    ― Joan Crawford
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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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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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