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A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. ↗

— Marion Dane Bauer

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God was calling them to love and to dare, not to hide and to be safe. ↗

— Marta Perry

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I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me. ↗

— Meryl Streep

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Beethoven speaking to royalty: "What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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He was like a song, I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since." - Sayuri, Memoir of Geisha ↗

— Arthur Golden

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When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

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They say that time heals all wounds. I've never believed that. Time may dampen the severity of a wound, but no true wound is ever completely healed. A scar lasts forever no matter how much Mederma you lather on it. The memory of a tattoo will be there long after you've had it burnt off. ↗

— Jamie Schoffman

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It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper. ↗

— S. A. Bodeen

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One of the most important lessons she'd recently learned was that looking strong and confident was sometimes all the people required of you. ↗

— Stuart Hill

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I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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