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“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of monsters.
From Ezra Klen' Op-Ed NY Times the day before Trump's Inauguration.”
― Adam Gramsci

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“...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

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“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

tags: death, life

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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read

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“Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.”
― John Mark Green

tags: drowning, dysfunctional-relationships, poisoned, toxic-people, toxic-relationships

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“When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.”
― Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

tags: books, literature

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#7

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth

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“Men will clutch illusions when they have nothing else to hold onto.”
― Czesław Miłosz, The Captive Mind

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“It's the living that turn and chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we rewrite their lives.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

tags: history

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#10

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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“Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.”
― Kate Sheppard

tags: inspirational, suffrage, suffragettes, vote, voting

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“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: honesty

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#13

“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”
― Beryl Bainbridge

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#14

“I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

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#15

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
― Anonymous

tags: misattributed-anne-frank

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#16

“Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.”
― Moses Maimonides

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#17

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world

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#18

“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen

tags: memory, war

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#19

“Class is a bubble, formed by privilege, shaping and manipulating, your conception of reality.”
― Zadie Smith, Intimations

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“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

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#21

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: science

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“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: causality, error, intelligence, theories

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#23

“Tradition is a pretty poor excuse for perpetrating stereotypes.”
― Ramsey Campbell

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#24

“Each dysfunctional family is dysfunctional in its own way.”
― Michael C. Perkins

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#25

“Prior to the studies by Renan and Straus, historians thought myth was an obstacle to be removed in the search for the actual truth of history. But these new writers treated myth as a source of insight into the ways people viewed themselves and their universe. What if instead of treating myth as an illusion and a falsification, we saw it as an expression of people's deepest dreams?”
― Ernst Cassirer, The Problem of Knowledge: Philosophy, Science and History Since Hegel

tags: dreams, history, myth

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#26

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#27

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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“For my mother, the world was full of opportunities for moral instruction. But I never knew her to get involved in a political campaign. Like my grandparents, she was suspicious of platforms, doctrines, absolutes, preferring to express her values on a smaller canvas.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

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#29

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

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#30

“If we want children to see reading as anything more than a school job, we must give them the chance to choose their own books and develop personal connections to reading, or they never will.”
― Donalyn Miller

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