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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time. As aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy; its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Percentage! What splendid words they have. They are so scientific and consolatory. Once you've said 'percentage' there's nothing more to worry about. if we had any other word maybe we might feel a bit more uneasy.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: language, skepticism
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: happiness, human-nature, psychology, social-commentary
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    Margaret Atwood
    “You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
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    Margaret Atwood
    “As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: better
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    Margaret Atwood
    “The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
    Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: control, forgiveness, kneel, own, power
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    Margaret Atwood
    “We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
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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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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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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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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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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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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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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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