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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1128170-yes-of-course-duct-tape-works-in-a-near-vacuum-duct</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 23:26:12 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Andy Weir]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped." -- Andy Weir]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/32561-without-trust-there-can-be-no-genuine-peace-neither-in</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 19:05:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Timothy Zahn]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/32561-without-trust-there-can-be-no-genuine-peace-neither-in]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Without trust, there can be no genuine peace.  Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit." -- Timothy Zahn]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/306111-the-purpose-of-a-storyteller-is-not-to-tell-you</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:39:33 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Brandon Sanderson]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/306111-the-purpose-of-a-storyteller-is-not-to-tell-you]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon." -- Brandon Sanderson]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/299246-life-before-death-strength-before-weakness-journey-before-destination</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:39:41 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Brandon Sanderson]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/299246-life-before-death-strength-before-weakness-journey-before-destination]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination." -- Brandon Sanderson]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/149738-it-s-easy-to-believe-in-something-when-you-win-all</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:39:50 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Brandon Sanderson]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/149738-it-s-easy-to-believe-in-something-when-you-win-all]]>
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	    <![CDATA["It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith." -- Brandon Sanderson]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/338572-men-rarely-see-their-own-actions-as-unjustified</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:41:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Brandon Sanderson]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/338572-men-rarely-see-their-own-actions-as-unjustified]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified." -- Brandon Sanderson]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/357802-a-man-can-only-stumble-for-so-long-before-he</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:41:33 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Brandon Sanderson]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/357802-a-man-can-only-stumble-for-so-long-before-he]]>
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	    <![CDATA["...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight." -- Brandon Sanderson]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/84196-authors-also-create-lovable-friendly-characters-then-proceed-to-do</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:42:13 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Brandon Sanderson]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/84196-authors-also-create-lovable-friendly-characters-then-proceed-to-do]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons.  This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters.  The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm.  If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties." -- Brandon Sanderson]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/292947-this-is-going-to-take-a-while-i-m-a-fantasy</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:42:24 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Brandon Sanderson]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/292947-this-is-going-to-take-a-while-i-m-a-fantasy]]>
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	    <![CDATA["This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity." -- Brandon Sanderson]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9200754-i-thought-once-that-gods-are-the-opposite-of-death</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:51:37 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Madeline Miller]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9200754-i-thought-once-that-gods-are-the-opposite-of-death]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands." -- Madeline Miller]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9200753-i-had-been-old-and-stern-for-so-long-carved</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:52:29 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Madeline Miller]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9200753-i-had-been-old-and-stern-for-so-long-carved]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it." -- Madeline Miller]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9221749-you-are-wise-he-said-if-it-is-so-i</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:52:48 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Madeline Miller]]>
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	    <![CDATA["You are wise,” he said. 

“If it is so,” I said, “it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes." -- Madeline Miller]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/109272-the-law-of-evolution-is-that-the-strongest-survives-yes</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:01:33 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/109272-the-law-of-evolution-is-that-the-strongest-survives-yes]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness." -- Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/129860-while-we-read-a-novel-we-are-insane-bonkers-we-believe</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:01:55 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/129860-while-we-read-a-novel-we-are-insane-bonkers-we-believe]]>
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	    <![CDATA["While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed." -- Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/571775-a-profound-love-between-two-people-involves-after-all-the</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:02:02 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/571775-a-profound-love-between-two-people-involves-after-all-the]]>
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	    <![CDATA["A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt." -- Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/809119-there-s-a-point-around-the-age-of-twenty-when-you</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:02:07 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/809119-there-s-a-point-around-the-age-of-twenty-when-you]]>
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	    <![CDATA["There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities." -- Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/178581-i-think-tehanu-said-in-her-soft-strange-voice-that</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:02:45 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/178581-i-think-tehanu-said-in-her-soft-strange-voice-that]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I think,&quot; Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, &quot;that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed." -- Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/384103-go-to-bed-tired-is-stupid</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:03:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/384103-go-to-bed-tired-is-stupid]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Go to bed; tired is stupid." -- Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/521850-the-end-justifies-the-means-but-what-if-there-never</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:03:44 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/521850-the-end-justifies-the-means-but-what-if-there-never]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means." -- Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1245147-for-a-word-to-be-spoken-there-must-be-silence</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:04:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1245147-for-a-word-to-be-spoken-there-must-be-silence]]>
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	    <![CDATA["For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after." -- Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/781254-no-darkness-lasts-forever-and-even-there-there-are-stars</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:04:40 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/781254-no-darkness-lasts-forever-and-even-there-there-are-stars]]>
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	    <![CDATA["No darkness lasts forever.  And even there, there are stars." -- Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10057485-so-much-of-who-we-are-is-what-we-remember</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 08:26:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Arkady Martine]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10057485-so-much-of-who-we-are-is-what-we-remember]]>
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	    <![CDATA["So much of who we are is what we remember and retell," -- Arkady Martine]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/717-be-patient-toward-all-that-is-unsolved-in-your-heart</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:06:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Rainer Maria Rilke]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/717-be-patient-toward-all-that-is-unsolved-in-your-heart]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." -- Rainer Maria Rilke]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/95915-let-everything-happen-to-you-beauty-and-terror-just-keep</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:06:06 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Rainer Maria Rilke]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/95915-let-everything-happen-to-you-beauty-and-terror-just-keep]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final" -- Rainer Maria Rilke]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/140777-therefore-dear-sir-love-your-solitude-and-try-to-sing</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:06:45 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Adrian add a quote by Rainer Maria Rilke]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/140777-therefore-dear-sir-love-your-solitude-and-try-to-sing]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it." -- Rainer Maria Rilke]]>
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