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    C.S. Lewis
    “Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: adult, childhood, children, maturity
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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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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, books, re-reading, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can make anything by writing.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: writing
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
    tags: art, books
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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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    Dan Rather
    “An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. ”
    ― Dan Rather
    tags: elitism, music, scholars, scholarship, snobbery, television
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    John McCain
    “I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists] live.

    Where's that?

    Well, in our nation's capital and New York City. I've seen it. I've lived there.”
    ― John McCain
    tags: elites, elitism, new-york-city, prejudice, washington-dc
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    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
    ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    tags: beatnik, cynical, funny, humour
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    George Carlin
    “Meow” means “woof” in cat.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, humor, language
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    “Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.”
    ― Pam Brown
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    Colette
    “There are no ordinary cats.”
    ― Colette
    tags: cats
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
    A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk
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    Philip Pullman
    “People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
    tags: labels, people
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    I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We
    “I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: labels, people
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    Alain de Botton
    “People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence. Such words are nevertheless an apt vehicle for conveying the disparate treatment accorded to different groups. Those without status are all but invisible: they are treated brusquely by others, their complexities trampled upon and their singularities ignored.”
    ― Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
    tags: nobodies, snobbery, status, winners-and-losers
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    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII
    tags: freedom, liberty, slavery
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    Bob Marley
    “Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: freedom, liberty, life, revolution
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    Dwight David Eisenhower
    “Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
    ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
    tags: books, censorship, freedom, libraries, reading, thought
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: defiant, freedom, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, life-and-living, self-belief, self-love, self-worth, society
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: choice, freedom, peace, war
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: adulthood, childhood
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    Jim Henson
    “[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
    ― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
    tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching
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    Roald Dahl
    “Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: childhood, children, humor
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
    tags: childhood, mothers
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    Louis de Bernières
    “Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?”
    ― Louis de Bernières, Corelli’s Mandolin
    tags: childhood, insanity
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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