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Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved! Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved. Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue, Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless And it isn't for you. ↗

— Louise Bogan

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It's not what you know, it's when you know it. ↗

— Kathy Sierra

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Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief. ↗

— August Wilson

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I was here but now I'm gone I left my name to carry on Those who liked me Liked me well Those who didn't can go to hell'" -The bathroom wall ↗

— E.M. Crane

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From The Desiderata: You are a child of the universe, No less than the trees and the stars, You have a right to be here; And whether or not it is clear to you No doubt the universe is unfolding as it should ↗

— Max Ehrmann

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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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