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With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#experience

I write nonfiction because individuals are unique and go through different experiences, our collective experiences enhances all our lives. ↗

— Thaddeus Lawrence

#experience

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#books #library #reading #marketing

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#marketing

Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic. ↗

— Holly Black

#faeries #faery #fairyland #fay #the-night-market

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#comics #liberation #subversion #liberalism

It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#morality #republic #war #liberalism

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip! ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#liberalism

Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that 'God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish'? Surely that precious word, 'Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely' and that solemn promise, 'Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out,' are better than signs and wonders! A truthful Saviour ought to be believed. He is truth itself. Why will you ask proof of the veracity of One who cannot lie? ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#salvation #signs #wonders #life

Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was maybe not a situation a caring girlfriend should put him in. Nor was she eager to let Percy out of her sight again—not after they’d been apart for so many months. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#coach-hedge #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #relationships #separation