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“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
John Steinbeck
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“The Winter of Our Discontent”
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1961
“the world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
,
“The Return of the King”
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1955
“once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.”
L. Frank Baum
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“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”
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1900
“Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
Thomas Hardy
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“Tess of the d'Urbervilles”
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1891
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
Carl Sagan
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“The Demon-Haunted World”
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1995
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
William Shakespeare
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“A Midsummer Night's Dream”
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1601
“In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“The Devil's Dictionary”
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1906
“Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.”
Kurt Vonnegut
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“Cat's Cradle”
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1963
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
G. K. Chesterton
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“Heretics”
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1905
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
Mark Twain
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“Following the Equator”
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1897
“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.”
Ray Bradbury
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“Fahrenheit 451”
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1953
“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.”
H. G. Wells
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“The Time Machine”
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1895
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
Helen Keller
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“The Story of My Life”
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1903
“The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.”
Victor Hugo
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“Les Misérables”
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1862
“Conceited people never hear anything but praise.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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“The Little Prince”
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1943
“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal.'”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
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16 April 1963
“No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability.”
Aldous Huxley
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“Brave New World”
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1932
“I again realized that we were not different people with separate languages; we were one people, with different tongues.”
Nelson Mandela
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“Long Walk to Freedom”
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1995
“to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful.”
George Eliot
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“Middlemarch”
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1872
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“The Brothers Karamazov”
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1880
