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#1

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

tags: writing

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#2

“Morning, noon & bloody night,
Seven sodding days a week,
I slave at filthy WORK, that might
Be done by any book-drunk freak.
This goes on until I kick the bucket.
FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT”
― Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

tags: humour, letters-to-monica, poetry

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#3

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: planning, preparation

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#4

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: planning, preparation

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#5

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#6

“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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#7

“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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#8

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#9

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

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#10

“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

tags: choices

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#11

“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

tags: choices, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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#12

“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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#13

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

tags: humor, life

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#14

“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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#15

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: satisfaction, self-determination

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#16

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

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#17

“That smile could end wars and cure cancer.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#18

“Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.”
― Louis Menand

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#19

“You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.”
― Brian Cox

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#20

“The practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the darkness with eyes opened not in fear but in wonder.”
― Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe

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#21

“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
― Brian Cox

tags: consciousness, cosmos, inspirational, life, universe

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#22

“Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.”
― Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe

tags: life, science, universe

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#23

“Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.”
― Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe

tags: light, physics, science, universe

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#24

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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#25

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

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#26

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8

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