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    Joseph Addison
    “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
    ― Joseph Addison
    tags: mind, reading
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    Jawaharlal Nehru
    “Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”
    ― Jawaharlal Nehru
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
    tags: action, community, daring, loneliness, purpose, youth
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    “[Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008] helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art — not to mention between art and life.”
    ― Michael Kimmelman
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    Robert Rauschenberg
    “I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand — I use those words interchangeably — another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I’m not one. I’d rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can’t ignore.”
    ― Robert Rauschenberg
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Clifton Fadiman
    “When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
    ― Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play
    tags: books, classics
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    “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
    ― Stephen Roberts
    tags: atheism, belief, deism, religion, scepticism
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    Thomas Carlyle
    “The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.”
    ― Thomas Carlyle
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    Erica Jong
    “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: advice
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    Erica Jong
    “And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: paradox, timidity
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    Mark Twain
    “It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, preparedness
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    Charles Mingus
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    Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative.”
    ― Charles mingus
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    Marlene Dietrich
    “I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
    ― Marlene Dietrich
    tags: quotes
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    Maya Angelou
    “Nothing will work unless you do.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    “To live content with small means.

    To seek elegance rather than luxury,
    and refinement rather than fashion.

    To be worthy not respectable,
    and wealthy not rich.

    To study hard, think quietly, talk gently,
    act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes,
    and sages with open heart, to bear all
    cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions,
    hurry never.

    In a word, to let the spiritual,
    unbidden and unconscious,
    grow up through the common.

    This is to be my symphony.”
    ― William Henry Channing
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    Robert Bringhurst
    “When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?”
    ― Robert Bringhurst, The Tree of Meaning: Thirteen Talks
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    Marcus Garvey
    “If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ”
    ― Marcus Garvey
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    Washington Irving
    “Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.”
    ― Washington Irving
    tags: misfortune, purpose
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    Frank McCourt
    “He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
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    Anne Frank
    “Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Art Spiegelman
    “To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
    ― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
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    Plutarch
    “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
    ― Plutarch
    tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking
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    Kurt Cobain
    “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: individuality, inspirational, misattributed, self-acceptance
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    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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    John Wooden
    “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”
    ― John Wooden
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    John Wooden
    “Be true to yourself.
    Make each day your masterpiece.
    Help others.
    Drink deeply from good books.
    Make friendship a fine art.
    Build a shelter against a rainy day.
    Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.”
    ― John Wooden
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