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#1

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: education, learning, lifelong-learning, self-education

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#2

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: religion, science, willful-ignorance

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#3

“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.”
― Isaac Asimov

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#4

“The Three Laws of Robotics:

1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;

2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law;

3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law;

The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

tags: laws-of-robotics, robots

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#5

“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
― Issac Asimov

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#6

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

tags: books, reading

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“While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: fiction, on-fiction

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#8

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”
― Stanley Kubrick

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#9

“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”
― Dave Matthews Band

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#10

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

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#11

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul

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#12

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
― Edith Wharton

tags: happiness

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#13

“It's time to start living the life you've imagined.”
― Henry James

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#14

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

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#15

“I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.”
― Henry James

tags: judge, judgement, think

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#16

“Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”
― Henry James

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#17

“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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#18

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#19

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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#20

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

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#21

“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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#22

“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#23

“Ah, good conversation — there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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#24

“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

tags: falsehood, family, friends, insincerity, kindness, loneliness, pretense

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#25

“My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.”
― Edith Wharton

tags: love

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#26

“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.”
― Henry James

tags: henry-james, time

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#27

“Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.”
― Henry James

tags: henry-james, the-portrait-of-a-lady

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#28

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#29

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

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#30

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

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