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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    George Lucas
    “Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.”
    ― George Lucas, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
    tags: george-lucas, star-wars, yoda
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    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
    ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    tags: censorship, lies, lying, silence, truth
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you're going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: adversity
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    Rick Riordan
    “Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
    tags: family
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Neil Gaiman
    “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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    Neil Gaiman
    “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
    'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
    'I don't much care where -' said Alice.
    'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
    '- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
    'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: choices, life-decisions
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    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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    Neil Gaiman
    “Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: inspirational
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Sarah
    tags: doubt, faith
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;!”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son
    tags: advice, ataraxy, coming-of-age, fathers-and-sons, philosophical
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    James Allen
    “The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”
    ― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
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    James Allen
    “Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. ”
    ― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
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    James Allen
    “As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.”
    ― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
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  • #19
    James Allen
    “A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.”
    ― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
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  • #20
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
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  • #22
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: writing
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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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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    John Lennon
    “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, dragons, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, fairies, faith, mythology, nightmares, reality, truth
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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  • #29
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Thomas Wolfe
    “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
    ― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
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