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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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    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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    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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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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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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    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: truth
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    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: evil, good
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    Gregory Maguire
    “Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Stephen Schwartz
    “I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason
    Bringing something we must learn
    And we are led to those who help us most to grow
    If we let them and we help them in return.”
    ― Stephen Schwartz
    tags: broadway, for-good, friendship, goodbyes, musicals, parting, wicked
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    Gregory Maguire
    “There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Gregory Maguire
    “Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.”
    ― Gregory Maguire
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    Gregory Maguire
    “Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we're lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch
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    Libba Bray
    “And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
    ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
    tags: change
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    Libba Bray
    “People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”
    ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
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    Libba Bray
    “In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.”
    ― Libba Bray
    tags: balance, doyle, gemma
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    Libba Bray
    “I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
    ― Libba Bray
    tags: inspirational
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    Libba Bray
    “What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”
    ― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels
    tags: challenges, good-and-evil
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    Libba Bray
    “I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.”
    ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
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    Libba Bray
    “We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.”
    ― Libba Bray
    tags: regret
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    Libba Bray
    “Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”
    ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
    tags: power
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    Libba Bray
    “There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”
    ― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
    tags: choice
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    Libba Bray
    “But we can't go back. We can only go forward.”
    ― Libba Bray
    tags: forgiveness, life
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    Libba Bray
    “And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.”
    ― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels
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    Libba Bray
    “I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.”
    ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
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    Libba Bray
    “I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.
    Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.”
    ― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
    tags: life
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    Libba Bray
    “Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.”
    ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
    tags: inspiration
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
    tags: beauty, david, uglies, westerfeld
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Extras
    tags: destruction, freedom
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, The Uglies Trilogy
    tags: appreciation, beauty, tally
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, So Yesterday
    tags: scott-la, scott-westerfeld, so-yesterday
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