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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: inspirational-quotes, strength-and-courage
    16622 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
    21499 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: truth
    16397 likes

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    Sarah Dessen
    “Don't think or judge, just listen.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: inspirational-quotes
    10279 likes

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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.

    [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: banned-books, bill-of-rights, books, censorship, freedom-of-thought, liberty, libraries
    330 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And so it goes...”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: classics
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom
    11238 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
    9093 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: attributed, attributed-no-source, education, intelligence, knowledge, unsourced
    5671 likes

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    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
    tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure
    4664 likes

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    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    ― John Locke
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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
    3934 likes

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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
    tags: inspirational, values
    2791 likes

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    Russell T. Davies
    “Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!

    (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
    ― Russell T. Davies
    tags: books, doctor-who, knowledge, library, reading, weapons
    1863 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    176061 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114167 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109053 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    91930 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    88760 likes

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  • #22
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
    13859 likes

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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    6745 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
    10424 likes

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    E.B. White
    “A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."

    [Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
    ― E.B. White
    tags: books, comfort, company, encouragement, libraries, reading, solace
    801 likes

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    “What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
    ― Harold Howe
    tags: education, libraries, library, school
    366 likes

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    James Baldwin
    “Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: african-american, gay
    64 likes

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    Nikki Giovanni
    “You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.”
    ― Nikki Giovanni
    tags: write
    91 likes

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    Nikki Giovanni
    “Deal with yourself as a individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.”
    ― Nikki Giovanni
    87 likes



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