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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
    tags: age, nostalgia, youth
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fantasy, fear, kvothe, man-s, name, patrick-rothfuss, wind, wise
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    Lauren Oliver
    “It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
    tags: aspirations, desires, fantasy, inner-life
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    Laini Taylor
    “I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fantasy, laini-taylor, stories, storytelling, strange-the-dreamer, young-adult
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    Laini Taylor
    “If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: dreams, love
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    Steve Maraboli
    “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
    ― Steve Maraboli
    tags: destiny, happiness, history, inspirational, let-go, letting-go, life, motivational, moving-on, success
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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom
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    Carl Sagan
    “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: aristocracy, capitalism, corruption, government, history, oppression, power, rationalization, society
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    Dan Brown
    “History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
    ― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
    tags: history, misattributed-napoleon-bonaparte
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    Milan Kundera
    “People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”
    ― Milan Kundera
    tags: history, history-of-power, politics
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    Carl Sagan
    “Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: books, civilization, education, history, knowledge, libraries, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
    tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Dale Carnegie
    “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life
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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
    37988 likes



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