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“In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.”
― Eric Hoffer

“Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]”
― Desmond Tutu

“The secret to wisdom is curiosity.”
― Yoshiko Uchida, The Wise Old Woman

“Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”
― George Orwell

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Everything is a science. Science is just paying attention and sorting out the rules already in place.”
― William Ritter, The Dire King

“Someday, you must tell me what it's like there. Why all who come out of that place seem so very competent... and so very afraid.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“There were so many dolls in there, waiting for her. Somewhere, in a less rational part of her brain, Louise felt that nothing could look so human and exist for so long without starting to develop thoughts on its own. What did the dolls think about?”
― Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

“We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.”
― Robert Brault

“You aren't in chains anymore!' Amy shouted over him. 'Your sentences are just habits. You've been free for decades - you just never realized it!”
― Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.”
― H. L. Mencken

“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”
― Carl Gustav Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul