Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But … - Maria Edgeworth

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Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

Maria Edgeworth

Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.

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Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

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The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

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If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

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What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.

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For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.

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Ziggy Marley

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

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We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out

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Dave Freudenthal

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

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Noam Chomsky

There are simple things which would make sense. Take, say, weatherization, which would make a big cut in the unemployment rate. That's the kind of work that plenty of people are quick to do, and it would save individual households money, and it would make a significant reduction in the threats of climate change. But something is holding it back: the sociopathic character of market systems.

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