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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: money
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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  • #5
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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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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    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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  • #8
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Harper Lee
    “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: atticus-finch, courage
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you killed him, you coward-'

    DON'T-' screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the house behind them- 'CALL ME A COWARD!”
    ― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: courage
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    Amelia Earhart
    “Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.”
    ― Amelia Earhart
    tags: courage, initiative
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    Adam Lindsay Gordon
    “Life is mostly froth and bubble,
    Two things stand like stone.
    Kindness in another's trouble,
    Courage in your own.”
    ― Adam Lindsay Gordon
    tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer
    1962 likes

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    Howard Zinn
    “I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: autonomy, complacency, ethics, independence, politics, proactivity, self-determination, society
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday
    tags: manners, society
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    Albert Einstein
    “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

    (Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: disagreement, dissent, equanimity, expressing, knowledge, opinions, prejudices, social, society, thought
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    Henrik Ibsen
    “I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.”
    ― Henrik Ibsen
    tags: majority, society
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    Erma Bombeck
    “When humor goes, there goes civilization.”
    ― Erma Bombeck
    tags: civilization, humor, society
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: censorship, dissent, society, suppression, trouble
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    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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    Bill Watterson
    “I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: friends
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    Bill Watterson
    “Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.”
    ― Bill Watterson
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    Bill Watterson
    “The world isn't fair, Calvin."
    "I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
    tags: cartoons, comics, fairness, humor
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    Bill Watterson
    “Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table.
    Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!?
    Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: question, trick
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    Bill Watterson
    “Calvin: Know what I pray for?
    Hobbes: What?
    Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
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  • #26
    People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
    “People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.”
    ― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
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    Poppy Z. Brite
    “There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up.”
    ― Poppy Z. Brite, The Value of X
    tags: gay, love, romance, unrequited-love, youth
    115 likes

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  • #28
    Groucho Marx
    “Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: beatitudes, paraphrased
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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  • #30
    Margaret Atwood
    “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
    tags: education
    2375 likes



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