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“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
― Albert Einstein

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Joy is the best makeup.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”
― Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Even if you fail, at least you had the balls to try.”
― Sandrine Gasq-Dion

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't know how to apply for a loan, don't even know how to properly fill out a job application, but because they know the quadratic formula we consider them prepared for the world`
With that said, I'll admit even I can see how looking at the equation x -3 = 19 and knowing x =22 can be useful. I'll even say knowing x =7 and y= 8 in a problem like 9x - 6y= 15 can be helpful. But seriously, do we all need to know how to simplify (x-3)(x-3i)??
And the joke is, no one can continue their education unless they do. A student living in California cannot get into a four-year college unless they pass Algebra 2 in high school. A future psychologist can't become a psychologist, a future lawyer can't become a lawyer, and I can't become a journalist unless each of us has a basic understanding of engineering.
Of course, engineers and scientists use this shit all the time, and I applaud them! But they don't take years of theater arts appreciation courses, because a scientist or an engineer doesn't need to know that 'The Phantom of the Opoera' was the longest-running Broadway musical of all time.
Get my point?”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
― Frank Zappa

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl