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Ray Bradbury

Quote from Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

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Philip K. Dick

Quote from Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Everything is true,’ he said. ‘Everything anybody has ever thought.”Will you be all right?”I’ll be all right,’ he said, and thought, And I’m going to die. Both those are true, too.

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Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem Suzy Kassem

Quote from Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHTI was born the dayI thought:What is?What was?AndWhat if?I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.I really came into beingThe day I no longer cared aboutWhat the world thought of me,Only on my thoughts forChanging the world.

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Last and First Men Olaf Stapledon

Quote from Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men

There is much in this vision that will remind you of your mystics; yet between them and us there is far more difference than similarity, in respect both of the matter and the manner of our thought. For while they are confident that the cosmos is perfect, we are sure only that it is very beautiful. While they pass to their conclusion without the aid of intellect, we have used that staff every step of the way. Thus, even when in respect of conclusions we agree with your mystics rather than your plodding intellectuals, in respect of method we applaud most your intellectuals; for they scorned to deceive themselves with comfortable fantasies.

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Quote from Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

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Song and the Power of Perseverance

Quote from David Archuleta, Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance

I like to believe that you don’t need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don’t go the way we might like them to, it’s a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner.

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Pete Wentz

Quote from Pete Wentz

Sometimes when it looks like I’m deep in thought I’m just trying not to have a conversation with people.

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The Great Brain Cleanse Toni Sorenson

Quote from Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse

A dark thought will never lead you to the light because darkness is terrified of light.

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The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art

Quote from José Ortega y Gasset, The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature

On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it’s own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

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Titus Lucretius Carus

Quote from Titus Lucretius Carus

The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.

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