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Leonardo da Vinci quote: "Time stays long enough for those who use it."
Time stays long enough for those who use it. Leonardo da Vinci
Margaret Mead quote: "I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into..."
I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had. Margaret Mead
Theodor Adorno quote: "Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to..."
Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth. Theodor Adorno
Jodi Picoult quote: "If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite..."
If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it. Jodi Picoult
In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people? the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. George Orwell
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. Andre Malraux
J. K. Rowling quote: "Well, you can't break an unbreakable vow," said Ron."I figured..."
Well, you can't break an unbreakable vow," said Ron."I figured that out myself, funnily enough. J. K. Rowling
Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble... Thomas Pynchon
There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and... Daniel Webster
Yet I had not been many days shut up with them before I began to be ashamed of my first judgment, when I had drawn away from them at the Ferry pier, as though they had been unclean beasts. No class of man is altogether bad, but each has its own faults and virtues; and these shipmates of mine were no exception to the rule. Rough they were, sure enough; and bad, I suppose; but they had many virtues. They were kind when it occurred to them, simple even beyond the simplicity of a country lad like... Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening Arundhati Roy
Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment or peace, instead or money or prestige or game or any of those things, doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as everybody else. If anything, I'm more so! J. D. Salinger
Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4.1. Get enough food to eat, and eat it.2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there.3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noiseuntil you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it.4. Richard Brautigan
A pious man explained to his followers: 'It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. "Don't be scared," I tell those fishes. "I am saving you from drowning." Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is evil to waste anything, I take those dead... Amy Tan
George MacDonald quote: "We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in..."
We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough. George MacDonald

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