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    Veronica Roth
    “May the peace of God be with you,” she says, her voice low, “even in the midst of trouble.”
    “Why would it?” I say softly, so no one else can hear. “After all I’ve done...”
    “It isn’t about you,” she says. “It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
    tags: blessing, god, peace
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    “I bargained with Life for a penny,
    and Life would pay no more,
    However I begged at evening
    When I counted my scanty store;

    Life is a just employer.
    He gives you what you ask,
    But once you have set the wages,
    Why, you must bear the task.

    I worked for a menial's hire,
    Only to learn, dismayed,
    That any wage I had asked of Life,
    Life would have willingly paid”
    ― Jessie B. Rittenhouse
    tags: ageing, hire, learning, life, philosophy, poem, poetry, poets, wages, wealth
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    Tupac Shakur
    “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”
    ― Tupac Shakur
    tags: inspirational
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, jefferson, security, thomas, thomas-jefferson
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    Veronica Roth
    “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: dauntless, divergent, fearless, four, tris
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: the-hunger-games
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity
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    Tupac Shakur
    “A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.”
    ― Tupac Shakur
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
    A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
    Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
    And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
    Here it's safe, here it's warm
    Here the daisies guard you from every harm
    Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
    Here is the place where I love you.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: katniss, rue, song
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    Tupac Shakur
    “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”
    ― Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew From Concrete
    tags: beauty, concrete, dreams, hardship, persistence, roses
    1316 likes

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    Veronica Roth
    “Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.”
    ― Veronica Roth
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    Sun Tzu
    “To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”
    ― Sun Tzu
    tags: enemy, sun-tzu, war
    773 likes

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    Suzanne Collins
    “District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: young-adult-fiction
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    Veronica Roth
    “I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    Veronica Roth
    “A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    Veronica Roth
    “There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
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    Veronica Roth
    “I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
    tags: four, heartbreaking, tobias
    3320 likes

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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    Tacitus
    “Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure”
    ― Tacitus
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
    tags: bounds, enslavement, error, false-belief, freedom, freedom-of-thought, imprisonment
    826 likes

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    Ron Paul
    “Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.”
    ― Ron Paul
    tags: freedom
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    Ron Paul
    “Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”
    ― Ron Paul, The Revolution: A Manifesto
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    Ron Paul
    “It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.”
    ― Ron Paul, End the Fed
    tags: central-bank, federal-reserve, fiat, fiat-money, paper-money, war, wars
    59 likes

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    Ron Paul
    “It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.”
    ― Ron Paul
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: american-revolution
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    Mark Twain
    “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: birth, born, day, important, life, reasons-why, true
    1835 likes

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    Suzanne Collins
    “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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  • #30
    “Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them.”
    ― Lecrae
    tags: money, work
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
    3382 likes



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