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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook
    tags: strength, worry
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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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  • #7
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #9
    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    ― Daniel Pennac
    tags: books, reading, rights
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Albert Einstein
    “Our task as humans is to widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Bill Murray
    “I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.”
    ― Bill Murray
    tags: bill-murray, dislike, dogs, like, person, trust
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: empowerment, marcus-aurelius, mind, philosophy, self-improvement, stoicism, thoughts
    303 likes

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  • #14
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: acquiescence
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  • #15
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception.”
    ― Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    tags: feminism, inspiration, women-empowerment
    105 likes

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  • #16
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
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  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #19
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: civic-duty, dissent, patriotism, truth-telling
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  • #21
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    ― Henry Ward Beecherr
    tags: books, humor
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  • #22
    Aristotle
    “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: education, ethics
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  • #23
    David Baldacci
    “Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
    ― David Baldacci, The Camel Club
    tags: books, peace, people, reading, world
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    Mark Twain
    “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-to-mark-twain, quote-investigator
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    Bernard Cornwell
    “I was born a Saxon, but raised by Danes, my daughter had married a Norseman, my dearest friend was Irish, my woman was a Saxon, the mother of my children had been Danish, my gods were pagan, and my oath was sworn to AEthelflaed, a Christian. Whose side was I on?”
    ― Bernard Cornwell, The Flame Bearer
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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  • #27
    Kiran H.J. Dellimore
    “Always remember to believe in yourself, not in what others believe about you. There is greatness in us all”
    ― Kiran Dellimore
    tags: inner-strength, self-belief
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  • #28
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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  • #29
    George Washington Carver
    “Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.”
    ― George Washington Carver
    tags: misattributed-buddha, tolerance, understanding
    782 likes



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