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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
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    Jane Goodall
    “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
    ― Jane Goodall
    tags: inspiration
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Elinor Glyn
    “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
    ― Elinor Glyn
    tags: inspiration, love, romance
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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: love
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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
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    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
    tags: love
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    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: imagination, inspiration, writing
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    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: kindness
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    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: books, feminist, reading
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    John Berger
    “When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
    ― John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays
    tags: books, reading, stories, story
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    William Shakespeare
    “Double, double, toil and trouble;
    Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    “Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
    ― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
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    Joan Didion
    “Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
    ― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
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    Willa Cather
    “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
    ― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: motivational
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: books, reading
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    Susan Sontag
    “To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
    tags: hit, sages, thinking, violence
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll
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