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    Bill Watterson
    “People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
    tags: idiots, life-humor
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    Anna Quindlen
    “I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
    ― Anna Quindlen
    tags: books, children
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    Frank Zappa
    “Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.”
    ― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
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    Malcolm X
    “People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: books, inspirational, literacy, religious
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Aristotle
    “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: teaching, understanding
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    Nelson Mandela
    “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: change, education
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: education
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    Bill Watterson
    “I've been thinking Hobbes"
    "On a weekend?"
    "Well, it wasn't on purpose”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Scott Adams
    “If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.”
    ― Scott Adams, Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel
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    John Steinbeck
    “I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday
    tags: belief, reading, teaching, women
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: philosophy
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    Jo Brand
    “Birthdays are nature's way of telling you to eat more cake.”
    ― Jo Brand
    tags: birthdays, cakes, indulging
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: christianity, god, religion
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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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    Richard Hughes
    “Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
    ― Richard Hughes
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    Lewis Carroll
    “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
    "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
    "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
    "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

    - I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
    - I shall fear only God.
    - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
    - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
    - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bravery, god, goodness, humanity, justice, kindness, peace, suffering
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