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She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

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At that moment, he was meaner and madder than he’d ever been, but mainly at himself, which is the worst kind of mean and mad to be, because the only thing to do about it is to take it out on someone else. ↗

— Victoria Forester

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If you believe something will make the world better, then it's always worth a try, even if you fail. ↗

— Sierra St. James

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You only lose what you cling to. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

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The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! ↗

— Larry Niven

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Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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