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    Alexandre Dumas
    “All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: book-the-count-of-monte-cristo
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    Roger Zelazny
    “I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber
    tags: libraries, libraries-shadows, security, words
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    Ann Leckie
    “Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.”
    ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
    tags: world
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    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: science
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    Dan Brown
    “Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
    tags: intellect, lost-symbol, research
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
    tags: writing
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    Albert Szent-Györgyi
    “Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”
    ― Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    tags: creativity, discovery, nobel-laureate, science, thinking
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    Mary Roach
    “All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.”
    ― Mary Roach
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    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas-fils
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Imagination is the highest form of research.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: inspiration
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    Albert Einstein
    “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “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
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    Douglas Adams
    “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
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
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    Thomas à Kempis
    “In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

    (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
    ― Thomas a Kempis
    tags: books, literature, peace, reading, rest, words
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “...she made her home in between the pages of books.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
    tags: book-lover, grace
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    Peter Clines
    “Malavika Vishwanath. Don't try to say it you'll just piss me off.”
    ― Peter Clines, 14
    tags: hard-to-pronounce, names, veek
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    Peter Clines
    “Hung herself in the closet."
    "Hanged," said Nate.
    "Don't be one of those people.”
    ― Peter Clines, 14
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager
    tags: claire-fraser, identity, jamie-fraser, love
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    Alan Bradley
    “As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

    No ... eight days a week.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
    tags: book-lover
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Your boyfriend's crazy,” he said to Clary.
    “Yeah, but he’s hot,” said Clary. “So there’s that.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man’s cub is mine, Lungri–mine to me! He shall not be killed. He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs–frog-eater– fish-killer–he shall hunt thee!”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
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    Ada Palmer
    “Books, even made-up stories, can't all have happy endings because they reflect the real world, and the real world isn't always happy.”
    ― Ada Palmer, Too Like the Lightning
    tags: books, happy-endings
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    Ada Palmer
    “Bryar Kosala just likes helping people, and is good at running things, and when invited to become the world’s Mom she said, “Sure.”
    ― Ada Palmer, Too Like the Lightning
    tags: helping, mothers, organization
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    Patricia A. McKillip
    “It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.”
    ― Patricia A. McKillip, The Changeling Sea
    tags: happiness
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    Patricia Briggs
    “You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, The Hob's Bargain
    tags: friend, humor, story
    24 likes



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