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    Natalie Angier
    “We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
    ― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
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    Cat Cora
    “Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.”
    ― Cat Cora
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: friendship, love, philosophy, women
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    Stanley Fish
    “The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
    ― Stanley Fish
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    George Carlin
    “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: benediction, evil, goodwill, humor, inspirational, wishes
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  • #6
    “Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: humour, science, wisdom
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    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: fear, understanding
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    Alan Alda
    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    ― Alan Alda
    tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind
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    Carl Sagan
    “Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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    A.A. Milne
    “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: humor, idleness, inspirational
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
    tags: aspiration, dream, work
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    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    ― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story
    tags: acceptance, life, love, worth
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    Mary Leakey
    “Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
    ― Mary Leakey
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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    Kate Greenaway
    “Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
    ― Kate Greenaway
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
    tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey
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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
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    Leonora Carrington
    “We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
    ― Leonora Carrington
    tags: dawn, light, silence
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    Red Pine
    “As a lamp, a cataract, a star in space
    an illusion, a dewdrop, a bubble
    a dream, a cloud, a flash of lightning
    view all created things like this.”
    ― Red Pine, The Diamond Sutra
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    Yoon Ha Lee
    “Blue stands for many things at the end of time: for the forgotten, blazing blue stars of aeons past; the antithesis of redshift, the color of uncut veins beneath your skin.
    This story is written in blue ink, although you do not know that yet.”
    ― Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows
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    Norton Juster
    “So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
    tags: education, lifelong-learning
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    Yasunari Kawabata
    “As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
    ― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
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    Czesław Miłosz
    “Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
    ― Czeslaw Milosz
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    Thurgood Marshall
    “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
    ― Thurgood Marshall
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    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck
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    Hilary Mantel
    “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: facts, knowledge
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    Marie Lu
    “Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
    ― Marie Lu, Legend
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