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    Audre Lorde
    “We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    Albert Camus
    “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: beatitudes, blessed, unbreakable
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    Albert Camus
    “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

    And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
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    Albert Camus
    “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
    ― Albert Camus, L'Étranger
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    Clifford A. Pickover
    “It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.”
    ― Clifford A. Pickover, The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics
    tags: mathematics, poetry
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    Malcolm X
    “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: activism, truth
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    Stanley Kubrick
    “If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”
    ― Stanley Kubrick
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    Stanley Kubrick
    “The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”
    ― Stanley Kubrick
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    Stanley Kubrick
    “A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”
    ― Stanley Kubrick
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    Stanley Kubrick
    “If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you’re getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.”
    ― Stanley Kubrick
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
    tags: poet
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “My life is not this steeply sloping hour,
    in which you see me hurrying.
    Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree;
    I am only one of my many mouths,
    and at that, the one that will be still the soonest.

    I am the rest between two notes,
    which are somehow always in discord
    because Death’s note wants to climb over—
    but in the dark interval, reconciled,
    they stay there trembling.
    And the song goes on, beautiful.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: earth, poems-of-blood-and-passion, spring
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    William Shakespeare
    “Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
    Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
    More than cool reason ever comprehends.
    The lunatic, the lover and the poet
    Are of imagination all compact:
    One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
    That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
    Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
    The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
    Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
    And as imagination bodies forth
    The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
    Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
    A local habitation and a name.”
    ― Shakespeare William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: comprehension, devils, earth, egypt, fantasy, helen, imagination, love, lover, lunatic, madmen, poet, poetry, reason, words
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Our love was born
    outside the walls,
    in the wind,
    in the night,
    in the earth,
    and that's why the clay and the flower,
    the mud and the roots
    know your name.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: earth, love, nature, pablo-neruda, poetry
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    Terence McKenna
    “Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”
    ― Terence McKenna
    tags: earth, gun, sustainability, western-civilization
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: activist, adulterers, altruism, being-human, bias, caring, cheaters, commuicator, communications, community-member, compassion, complainers, crime, earth, empathetic, environment, forgiving, helper, helping-out, homeless, human-trafficing, hypocrite, kindness, liars, marine-conservation, medical-missions, mental-disorder-bias, mental-health-stigma, morals, oceans, open, outdoors, pollution, respect-for-the-world, respect-life, respect-nature, service, service-project, simplistic, social-issues, theif, theology, uneducated, values, vulnerable
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: earth, heaven, heavenly, nature
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    Paul Auster
    “Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
    ― Paul Auster
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    Isaac Asimov
    “I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: motivational, writing
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    Isaac Asimov
    “People think of education as something they can finish.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: education
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: books, censorship, reading
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    Isaac Asimov
    “There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky
    tags: loneliness, mind, suffering
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    “A star does not compete with other stars around it; it just shines.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: be-you-quote, be-yourself-quotes, dream-quotes, dreamer-quotes, greatness-quotes, inner-light-quotes, life-lesson-quotes, life-lessons-quotes, life-quotations, life-quotes, life-quotes-and-sayings, shine-quotes, shine-your-light-quotes, stand-out, stand-out-from-the-crowd, star-quotes, success-quotes
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    “Stars do not pull each other down to be more visible; they shine brighter.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: bright-quote, career-quotes, conduct-quotes, criticism-quotes, critics-quotes, dream-quotes, dreamer-quotes, envy-quotes, excellence-quotes, genius-quotes, greatness-quotes, haters-quotes, inner-light-quotes, inspirational-quotations, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspirational-quotes-about-life, inspirational-quotes-for-women, inspirational-quotes-for-work, inspirational-quotes-motivation, inspirational-quotes-of-the-day, jelousy-quotes, life-lesson-quotes, life-lessons-quotes, life-quotations, life-quote, life-quotes, life-quotes-and-sayings, life-quotes-inspirational-quotes, light-quotations, light-quotes, motivation-quotes, motivational-quotations, motivational-quote, motivational-quote-of-the-day, motivational-quotes, motivational-quotes-for-women, shine-quotes, shine-your-light-quotes, shine-your-star, shinning-your-light, skill-quotes, sky-quotes, stand-out-from-the-crowd, stand-out-quotes, star-quotes, success-quotes, talent-quotes, work-ethic-quotes, work-hard-quotes, work-quotations, work-quotes, work-smart
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    “Light changes form but never dies.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: change-quotes, inner-light-quotes, light-quotations, light-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, spiritual-quotations, spiritual-quotes, wisdom-quotes, wise-quotations, wise-quotes
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    Dan Brown
    “Love is not a finite emotion.
    We don’t have only so much to share.
    Our hearts create love as we need it.”
    ― Dan Brown, Origin
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    Emily Dickinson
    “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: life, love
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  • #30
    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
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