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    Robert Jordan
    “Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
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    Sun Tzu
    “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: strategy
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Charlotte Eriksson
    “So for now,
    I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,
    And the next time I see you,
    I will kiss you like I’ll never kiss you again,
    And when I fall asleep beside you
    I will fall asleep as if I’ll never wake up again,
    because I don’t know if I will.
    I don’t know if I will.

    - I Will Love You Like The World Is Ending”
    ― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
    tags: breakup, change, endings, last-time, love, missing, poetry
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    Gloria Steinem
    “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: dreaming, dreams, excitement, imagination, inspirational, planning, possibility
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    Patrick Süskind
    “Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.”
    ― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    tags: cold, enthusiasm, excitement, hidden
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    Aristotle
    “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: choice, inspirational
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    Raymond Carver
    “I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.”
    ― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
    tags: distraction, intimacy, love, memory, past
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: anger, animosity, antipathy, aversion, bad-temper, bitterness, burn, burning-anger, coal, deception, dislike, enmity, forgive, forgiveness, glow, glowing, grievance, grudge, grudges, hardhearted, heart, malice, red, trick, unforgiving
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    Dejan Stojanovic
    “It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.”
    ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
    tags: books, dejan-stojanovic, glow, literature, literature-quotes, philosophy, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, quotes, recognition, silence, the-sun-watches-the-sun, wisdom
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    Steven Erikson
    “Peace is the time of waiting for war. A time of preparation, or a time of wilful ignorance, blind, blinkered and prattling behind secure walls.”
    ― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice
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    Peter Newman
    “When everything’s going alright, best thing you can do is sit back and enjoy it till things turn to shit, which they surely will.’ Silence”
    ― Peter Newman, The Vagrant
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    Anne Fortier
    “He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past.”
    ― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood
    tags: power-corrupts, rewriting-history
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: living-your-dreams, living-your-life, noble, passionate-life, reaching-for-your-dreams, responsibility, rewriting-history, settling
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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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    Cherise Sinclair
    “No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for "Before Coffee.”
    ― Cherise Sinclair, Master of the Mountain
    tags: rewriting-history
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    Alessandro Baricco
    “It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you will never live.”
    ― Alessandro Baricco, Silk
    tags: books
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    Alessandro Baricco
    “Reasons get forgotten.”
    ― Alessandro Baricco, Silk
    tags: forgetting, forgotten, reasons, truth
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: love, moon, stars, sun
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine, and patience, Watson—all else will come.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: brain, nature, nature-inspirational, overthinking, sherlock-holmes, thinking
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    Toni Morrison
    “To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.”
    ― Toni Morrison, A Mercy
    tags: freedom, slavery
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    Toni Morrison
    “We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.”
    ― Toni Morrison, A Mercy
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    Toni Morrison
    “There is no protection. To be female in this place is to be an open wound that cannot heal. Even if scars form, the festering is ever below.”
    ― Toni Morrison, A Mercy
    tags: a-woman-s-burden, slave-women
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    Anthony Ryan
    “Beware the seduction of the quick conclusion. Do not indulge in the answer you desire until you know all you need to know.”
    ― Anthony Ryan, Tower Lord
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    Alessandro Baricco
    “She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind”
    ― Alessandro Baricco, Ocean Sea
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    Steven Erikson
    “Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.”
    ― Steven Erikson, House of Chains
    tags: darkness, inspirational, light, poetry, shadow
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    Anthony Ryan
    “Mercy is the sweetest wine and the bitterest wormwood,” Eliss, the mother, said. “For it rewards the merciful and shames the guilty.”
    ― Anthony Ryan, Tower Lord
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