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#95

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words

#96

“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

1114 likes

#97

“Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.”
― Jeffrey Zeldman

tags: code, design, webdesign

28 likes

#98

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: adventuring, death, time

21953 likes

#99

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting

2722 likes

#100

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: fantasy, humor, scifi

23529 likes

#101

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

1988 likes

#102

“All knowledge is worth having.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: inspiration, life, philosophy

679 likes

#103

“Want and intelligence,’ the historian had written, ‘is a dangerous combination.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

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#104

“The people we remember are the ones who decided how our maps should be drawn. Nobody remembers who built the roads.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

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#105

“Do not judge other species by your own social norms”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

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#106

“Tresha. It was the thankful, humble, vulnerable feeling that came after someone saw a truth in you, something they had discovered just by watching, something that you did not admit often to yourself.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

55 likes

#107

“People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

138 likes

#108

“Acting all sanctimonious while spouting bad info was a terrible way to win a debate, but a great way to piss people off.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

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#109

“Time was a curious equaliser.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

31 likes

#110

“Time could crawl, it could fly, it could amble. Time was a slippery thing.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

30 likes

#111

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: creativity

532 likes

#112

“Humans’ preoccupation with ‘being happy’ was something he had never been able to figure out. No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

111 likes

#113

“Such a quintessentially Human thing, to express sorrow through apology.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

71 likes

#114

“If not you, then who? If not now, when?”
― Hillel first- century Jewish scholar

tags: inspirational-life

57 likes

#115

“I believe that there is luminosity hiding in the shadow of the mundane. And things that hover at the periphery of our vision. If that’s magic, then I believe in it.”
― Natasha Mostert

tags: magic

21 likes

#116

“Men don't become worth your while until they're in their thirties." …
"Well, it's not automatic with all men, you know." …
"With women, of course, it's different. Women are born interesting.”
― Natasha Mostert, Season of the Witch

10 likes

#117

“Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

138 likes

#118

“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

tags: home

313 likes

#119

“For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

tags: inspirational, social-justice

428 likes

#120

“This is what you must remember: the ending of one story is just the beginning of another.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

50 likes

#121

“Nothing to do but follow your crazy,”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

39 likes

#122

“But human beings, too, are ephemeral things in the planetary scale. The number of things that they do not notice are literally astronomical.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

40 likes

#123

“Frightened people look for scapegoats.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

20 likes

#124

“I think,” Hoa says slowly, “that if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

tags: love

293 likes

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