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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.”
― Sarah Vowell

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear