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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
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Dr. Seuss
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
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Bernard M. Baruch
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
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Dr. Seuss
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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...
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Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places Youβll Go!)
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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
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Dr. Seuss
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Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
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Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
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Dr. Seuss (I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!)
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A person's a person, no matter how small.
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Dr. Seuss (Horton Hears a Who!)
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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.
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Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)
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Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
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Dr. Seuss
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Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
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Dr. Seuss
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Being crazy isn't enough.
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Dr. Seuss
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I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!
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Dr. Seuss (Horton Hatches the Egg)
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Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
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Dr. Seuss
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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
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Dr. Seuss
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You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
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Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places Youβll Go!)
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How did it get so late so soon?
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Dr. Seuss
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I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
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Dr. Seuss
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So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ΒΎ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.
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Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)
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Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
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Dr. Seuss
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If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.
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Dr. Seuss
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All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!
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Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go! and The Lorax)
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From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
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Dr. Seuss (One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish)
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Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!
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Dr. Seuss (How the Grinch Stole Christmas!)
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Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.
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Dr. Seuss
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They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!
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Dr. Seuss
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Youβll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
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Dr. Seuss (I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!)
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If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
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Dr. Seuss
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Only you can control your future.
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Dr. Seuss
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I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
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Dr. Seuss
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Be awesome! Be a book nut!
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Dr. Seuss
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Iβm glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.
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Dr. Seuss
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The storm starts, when the drops start dropping
When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.
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Dr. Seuss
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what's your name?"
what?" i asked, squinting at the light.
your name." I reconized Dr. Olendzki peering over me.
you know my name."
I want you to tell me."
Rose. Rose Hathaway."
Do you know your birthday?"
Of course I do. Why are you asking me such stupid things? Did you lose my records?"
Dr. Olendzki gave an exasperated sigh and walked off, taking the annoying light with her. "I think she's fine,
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Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))
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She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.
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Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)
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You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
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Dr. Seuss
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Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?
Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.
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Albert Einstein
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So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
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Dr. Seuss
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Think and wonder, wonder and think.
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Dr. Seuss
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ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!
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Dr. Seuss (Horton Hears a Who!)
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If you have a dream, donβt just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.
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Roopleen
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I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.
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Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)
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When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.
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Dr. Seuss (Fox in Socks)
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How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
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Dr. Seuss
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To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.
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Dr. Seuss
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The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
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Dr. Seuss
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Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.
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Dr. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat)
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It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
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Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)
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We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness β and call it love β true love.
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Robert Fulghum (True Love)
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I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.
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Dr. Seuss (Yertle the Turtle and Gertrude McFuzz ( Collins Colour Cubs Mini Format ))
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When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind. - Dr Wayne W. Dyer
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R.J. Palacio (Wonder (Wonder, #1))
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Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.
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Patrick O'Brian (The Hundred Days (Aubrey & Maturin, #19))
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There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.
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Dr. Seuss
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The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.
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Donald Barthelme (Come Back, Dr. Caligari)
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Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.
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Dr. Seuss (Oh, The Places Youβll Go!)
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He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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Dr. Martinez: "I take it you don't want me to call your parent?"
Max: "Uh, no." Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please?
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James Patterson (The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1))
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You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.
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Dr. Seuss (Oh, The Places Youβll Go!)
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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #7))
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Poor empty pants
With nobody inside them.
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Dr. Seuss
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If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't!
An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.
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Dr. Seuss
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
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Dr. Seuss
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You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?
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Dr. Seuss
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Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you
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Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places Youβll Go!)
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Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.
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Dr. Seuss
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All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
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Alan Moore (Watchmen)
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When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.
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Dr. Seuss
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Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!
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Dr. Seuss
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And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
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Dr. Seuss (Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories)
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Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!
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Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places Youβll Go!)
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And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!
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Dr. Seuss
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And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
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Dr. Seuss (How the Grinch Stole Christmas!)
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Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
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Dr. Seuss
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Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.
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Dr. Seuss
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You can find magic
wherever you look.
Sit back and relax,
all you need is a book.
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Dr. Seuss
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Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.
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Dr. Seuss
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I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.
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Dr. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat (The Cat in the Hat, #1))
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You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
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Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places Youβll Go!)
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And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!
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Dr. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat (The Cat in the Hat, #1))
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush...
"To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and... for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?
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Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well thatβs because heβs a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, thatβs usually to impress some girl.
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It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.
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Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places Youβll Go!)
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If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
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Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.
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Dr. Seuss
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You'll be on your way up!
You'll be seeing great sights!
You'll join the high fliers
who soar to high heights.
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Dr. Seuss
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You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
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Anita Merina
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I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
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Dr. Seuss (Horton Hatches the Egg)
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My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around
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Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets."
And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.
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When you think things are bad,
when you feel sour and blue,
when you start to get mad...
you should do what I do!
Just tell yourself, Duckie,
you're really quite lucky!
Some people are much more...
oh, ever so much more...
oh, muchly much-much more
unlucky than you!
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Dr. Seuss (Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (Classic Seuss))
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And when you're alone there's a very good chance
you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants
There are some, down the road between hither and yon,
that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.
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Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places Youβll Go!)
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It has often been said
thereβs so much to be read,
you never can cram
all those words in your head.
So the writer who breeds
more words than he needs
is making a chore
for the reader who reads.
That's why my belief is
the briefer the brief is,
the greater the sigh
of the reader's relief is.
And that's why your books
have such power and strength.
You publish with shorth!
(Shorth is better than length.)
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Dr. Seuss
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Be grateful youβre not in the forest in France
Where the average young person just hasnβt a chance
To escape from the perilous pants eating plants
But your pants are safe, youβre a fortunate guy
You ought to be shouting how lucky am I
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The axiom of equality states that x always equals x: it assumes that if you have a conceptual thing named x, that it must always be equivalent to itself, that it has a uniqueness about it, that it is in possession of something so irreducible that we must assume it is absolutely, unchangeably equivalent to itself for all time, that its very elementalness can never be altered. But it is impossible to prove. Always, absolutes, nevers: these are the words, as much as numbers, that make up the world of mathematics. Not everyone liked the axiom of equalityββDr. Li had once called it coy and twee, a fan dance of an axiomββbut he had always appreciated how elusive it was, how the beauty of the equation itself would always be frustrated by the attempts to prove it. It was the kind of axiom that could drive you mad, that could consume you, that could easily become an entire life.
But now he knows for certain how true the axiom is, because he himselfββhis very lifeββhas proven it. The person I was will always be the person I am, he realizes. The context may have changed: he may be in this apartment, and he may have a job that he enjoys and that pays him well, and he may have parents and friends he loves. He may be respected; in court, he may even be feared. But fundamentally, he is the same person, a person who inspires disgust, a person meant to be hated.
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No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Hereβs a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages
1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didnβt stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.
3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on βBright Eyes.β
4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.
5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.
6) Nadia ComΔneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.
7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15.
8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.
9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.
10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961.
11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.
12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23
13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24
14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record
15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity
16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France
17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures βDavidβ and βPietaβ by age 28
18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world
19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter
20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind
22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest
23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech βI Have a Dream."
24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics
25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight
26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions.
27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.
28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and 49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas
30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driverβs order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger
31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States
32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.
33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games"
34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out.
35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.
36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.
37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels.
38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat".
40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived
41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise
42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out
43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US
44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats
45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President
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Catch! calls the Once-ler.
He lets something fall.
It's a Truffula Seed.
It's the last one of all!
You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds.
And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs.
Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care.
Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.
Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack.
Then the Lorax
and all of his friends
may come back.
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I love my job. I love the pay!
~I love it more and more each day.
~I love my boss, he is the best!
~I love his boss and all the rest.
~I love my office and its location. I hate to have to go on vacation.
~I love my furniture, drab and grey, and piles of paper that grow each day!
~I think my job is swell, there's nothing else I love so well.
~I love to work among my peers, I love their leers, and jeers, and sneers.
~I love my computer and its software; I hug it often though it won't care.
~I love each program and every file, I'd love them more if they worked a while.
~I'm happy to be here. I am. I am.
~I'm the happiest slave of the Firm, I am.
~I love this work. I love these chores.
~I love the meetings with deadly bores.
~I love my job - I'll say it again - I even love those friendly men.
~Those friendly men who've come today, in clean white coats to take me away!!!!!
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