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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.”
― Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

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

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“It all goes together,” Montana said. “Society wants to sell them things, so it makes them grow up faster. Sexism serves capitalism.”
― Nancy Jo Sales, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

“At the very heart of being a merchant is a desire to tell a story by making sensory, emotional connections. Once, twice, or 16,000 times.”
― Howard Schultz, Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul

“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year ON”
― Misty Griffin, Tears of the Silenced

“It is love—friendship—that sustains us, even in the worst of times, under the worst of circumstances. Even when we have been driven mad. Even when we have killed. We still love. We are still worthy of love. We can still be loved.   —Daphne Gottlieb San Francisco”
― Aileen Wuornos, Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words

“And that’s how I became part of the Association for Redistributing Wealth in Hoeryong.”
― Joseph Kim, Under the Same Sky: A Memoir of Survival, Hope, and Faith

“If your mind is strong,” he told me, “you can survive anything.”
― Joseph Kim, Under the Same Sky: A Memoir of Survival, Hope, and Faith

“If you ever wanted to invade North Korea, that would be the time to do it, because half the country would be at a neighbor’s house waiting for a show to begin. The”
― Joseph Kim, Under the Same Sky: A Memoir of Survival, Hope, and Faith

“You can even yearn for a prison, so long as it contains the people and places you love. One”
― Joseph Kim, Under the Same Sky: A Memoir of Survival, Hope, and Faith

“plus lastly, It shouldnt matter who you are (or) what your work place is. Self-defense is Self-defense. No one has the right to lay any pyshical abuse on “ANYONE .”
― Aileen Wuornos, Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words

“Mademoiselle Amal,”
― Brigitte Gabriel, Because They Hate

“Besides, come shells or high water in the shelter, we were going to continue our education. More important than anything else to our parents and leaders was that we be educated. Our”
― Brigitte Gabriel, Because They Hate

“Thank you for coming, Madame Choi,” he said. “You must be exhausted from the journey. Welcome. I am Kim Jong-Il.”
― Paul Fischer, A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

“(Later in 1978, the Chinese premier Deng Xiaoping visited Pyongyang and, upon seeing the shining gold idol, expressed concern over how Beijing’s money was being spent. The gold covering was stripped and replaced by an equally shiny copper.) She”
― Paul Fischer, A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

“He had been the leader of his country for forty-six years. He had outlived Mao by nearly twenty years and Stalin by forty; his reign had seen off nine U.S. presidents, twenty-one Japanese prime ministers, and six South Korean presidents. And he had succeeded in passing the reins of power to his son. *”
― Paul Fischer, A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

“Why did you want children when you knew there was a war?’ Mustafa”
― Åsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath