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“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”
― Democritus

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.”
― Democritus

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“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

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.”
― Voltaire

“Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,
Into your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.”
― Maya Angelou

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
― Cheris Kramarae

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
― Ann Richards

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
― Iris Murdoch

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

“Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ”
― Elizabeth Stone