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  • #1
    Wole Soyinka
    “The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
    Wole Soyinka

  • #2
    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #3
    Harper Lee
    “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #4
    Francis of Assisi
    “While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”
    St. Francis of Assisi

  • #5
    Thor Heyerdahl
    “Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
    Thor Heyerdahl

  • #6
    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    John Locke

  • #7
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

  • #8
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    Abigail Van Buren

  • #9
    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    William Faulkner

  • #10
    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #11
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #12
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    William Faulkner

  • #13
    John W. Campbell Jr.
    “History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
    John W. Campbell Jr.

  • #14
    Lev Grossman
    “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
    Lev Grossman, The Magicians

  • #15
    Harper Lee
    “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #16
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #17
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    Winston S. Churchill



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