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    Jarod Kintz
    “I wonder if rooms in an insane asylum have Do Not Disturb signs for the doors. I should hope not, because knock or no knock, every occupant in those rooms is already disturbed.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
    tags: amazing, difficult, fight, greatest, life, lose, struggle, truth, value, worth
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “The only person worthy of your love is not one who overstayed in the relationship without a single change, but one, who appeared like an angel, and used a single day to make a million change.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
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    Moffat Machingura
    “Follow your dreams. I am not saying it’s going to be easy, but I am saying it’s going to be worth it. – Moffat Machingura”
    ― Moffat Machingura
    tags: dreams, easy, follow-your-dreams, life, perseverence, worth
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    Ann Kelley
    “Death: I know, or I think I know that death will only be nothingness, but I don’t want oblivion yet. I want to smell honeysuckle in the dark, I want to hear my cat greet me with her special purring. I want to smell old books”
    ― Ann Kelley, The Bower Bird
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: happiness, human-nature, humanity, perfection, time
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    “God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs.

    Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
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    George Carlin
    “The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: bad-girls, christmas, santa, santa-claus, sex
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    Steve Martin
    “I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”
    ― steve martin
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Richard Powers
    “What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
    ― Richard Powers, The Overstory
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    Richard Powers
    “You can’t come back to something that is gone.”
    ― Richard Powers, The Overstory
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    Richard Powers
    “There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.”
    ― Richard Powers, The Overstory
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    Richard Powers
    “A seed that lands upside down in the ground will wheel --root and stem--in a great U-turn until it rights itself. But a human child can know it's pointed wrong and still consider the direction well worth a try.”
    ― Richard Powers, The Overstory
    tags: human-nature
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    Richard Powers
    “Earth will be monetized until all trees grow in straight lines, three people own all seven continents, and every large organism is bred to be slaughtered.”
    ― Richard Powers, The Overstory
    tags: 1-percent, 99-percent, capitalism, power, socialism
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: diversity, open-mindedness
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: open-mindedness, prejudice, truth
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    Albert Einstein
    “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adaptation, flexibility, intelligence, open-mindedness, wisdom
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: adaptation, change, open-mindedness, self-improvement
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    Apollonius of Rhodes
    “It is a fact that we tribes of suffering men never plant our feet firmly upon the path of joy, but there is ever some bitter pain to keep company with our delight.”
    ― Apollonius of Rhodes, Jason and the Golden Fleece
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    “Life is a lot like the interstate, where every exit is an entrance someplace else.”
    ― Karen White, The Sound of Glass
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    Karen White
    “life is a lot like the interstate, where every exit is an entrance someplace else.”
    ― Karen White, The Sound of Glass
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    Constantinos P. Cavafy
    “When you set sail for Ithaca,
    wish for the road to be long,
    full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
    ― C.P. Cavafy
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    Beryl Markham
    “A map says to you.
    Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
    I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
    ― Beryl Markham
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
    tags: lone-wolf, pain, scar
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    tags: finding-yourself, searching, travel
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
    tags: happiness, risk
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    Mark Twain
    “Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: education, food
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    Stephanie Garber
    “The air tasted like wonder. Like candied butterfly wings caught in sugared spiderwebs, and drunken peaches coated in luck.”
    ― Stephanie Garber, Legendary
    tags: caraval, legendary, wonder
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    “I want to challenge myself and do new things.

    I don't know what it's like to be my true self. But it's more interesting that way.
    Even if you don't know yourself?

    If you don't know it means you can become anything you want to be, right?”
    ― Peach-Pit, Shugo Chara!, Vol. 4: Character Swap!
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