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"Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
IÔÇÖm younger than that now"
My Back Pages, Bob Dylan
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ÔÇ£If you have a garden & a library, you have everything you need.ÔÇØ
Cicero
ÔÇ£If the truth shall kill them, let them die.ÔÇØ
Immanuel Kant
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ÔÇ£The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.ÔÇØ
Gloria Steinem
ÔÇ£Hell is empty & all the devils are here.ÔÇØ
William Shakespeare
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ÔÇ£I am, somehow, less interested in the weight & convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived & died in cotton fields & sweatshops.ÔÇØ
Steven Jay Gould
ÔÇ£The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.ÔÇØ
Aldous Huxley
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ÔÇ£I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions & billions of years before I was born, & had not the suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.ÔÇØ
Mark Twain
ÔÇ£The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. And that means finding books that they enjoy, giving them access to those books & letting them read them.ÔÇØ
Neil Gaiman
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ÔÇ£Education is not something you can finish.ÔÇØ
Isaac Asimov
ÔÇ£If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.ÔÇØ
Albert Einstein
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ÔÇ£We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.ÔÇØ
Benjamin Franklin
ÔÇ£Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything, & everything about anything.ÔÇØ
Tomie Depaola
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ÔÇÿGrief never ends. But it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. ItÔÇÖs the price of love,ÔÇÖ
Unknown.
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ÔÇ£What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again.ÔÇØ
Anne Frank
ÔÇ£Only the soul knows what love is.ÔÇØ
Rumi
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"Be with those who help your being.ÔÇØ
Rumi
ÔÇ£Don't make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.ÔÇØ
Rumi
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ÔÇ£Inside you is an artist you don't know about.ÔÇØ
Rumi
ÔÇ£Sell your cleverness & buy intuition.Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.ÔÇØ
Rumi
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ÔÇ£Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.ÔÇØ
Omar Khayyam
ÔÇ£Dead yesterdays & unborn tomorrows, why fret about it if today be sweet.ÔÇØ
Omar Khayyam
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ÔÇ£As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone.Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain ypurself but don't hurt others.ÔÇØ
Omar Khayyam
ÔÇ£The moving finger writes; & having writ,
moves on. Nor all they piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
nor all they tears wash out a word of it.ÔÇØ
Omar Khayyam
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ÔÇ£The world is divided into men who have wit & no religion & men who have religion & no wit.ÔÇØ
Avicenna
ÔÇ£Have patience.All things are difficult before they become easy.ÔÇØ
Saadi
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ÔÇ£You who feel no pain at the suffering of others; it is not fitting for you to be called human.ÔÇØ
Saadi
ÔÇ£No society wants you to become wise; it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited.ÔÇØ
Osho
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ÔÇ£Truth is not something to be discovered, it is something inside to be realised.ÔÇØ
Osho
ÔÇ£If you love a flower, don't pick it. Because if you pick it, it dies & ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love os about appreciation.ÔÇØ
Osho
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ÔÇ£First the man takes the drink, then the drink takes the man.ÔÇØ
Irish saying
ÔÇ£Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.ÔÇØ
Margaret Mead
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ÔÇ£I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what its like to feel absolutely worthless & they don't want anyone else to feel like that.ÔÇØ
Robin Williams
ÔÇ£The greatest crimes are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules.ÔÇØ
Banksy
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"Plants are not alternative medicine. They're the original.ÔÇØ
Anon
ÔÇ£A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.ÔÇØ
Henry Ward Beecher
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