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    Robert Bly
    “Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve,
    I want to tie the two arms together,
    And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.”
    ― Robert Bly, The Night Abraham Called to the Stars: Poems
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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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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Albert Einstein
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes
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    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “You may delay, but time will not.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: procrastination, time, time-quotes
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    Harper Lee
    “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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    Anna Deavere Smith
    “Each person has a literature inside them.”
    ― Anna Deavere Smith
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    Pablo Neruda
    “They can cut all the flowers, but they can't stop the spring...”
    ― Pablo Neruda
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    Victor Shklovsky
    “Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways: the shock of the new.”
    ― Viktor Shklovsky
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    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald
    tags: love
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    John Steinbeck
    “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    tags: contrast, life, opposites, summer, winter
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Matsuo Bashō
    “The journey itself is my home.”
    ― Matsuo Basho
    tags: travel
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    Matsuo Bashō
    “Come, see the true
    flowers
    of this pained world.”
    ― Basho, On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
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    Mark Twain
    “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: blush, wordplay
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    César Chávez
    “Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

    Cesar Chavez
    Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984 ”
    ― Cesar Chavez
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    James Baldwin
    “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: dissent, patriotism, protest
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    James Baldwin
    “The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: artists, exposing, love, lovers, sharing, truth
    434 likes



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