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“The eidolons started pounding on the door.
'Who is it?' Leo called.
'Valdez!'
'Valdez who?”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

Emile Zola book Au Bonheur des Dames

“Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in… A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer

“Whatever you know, or don't - only Love is real.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“Do not try to rescue someone who does not want to be rescued, and be very careful about rescuing someone who does want to be rescued.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

“I was a Nazi and I remain one…The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province of Europe.”

Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) SS officer

“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”

William Barclay (1907–1978) Church of Scotland minister and academic

“I always liked strange characters.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

“What you seek is seeking you.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

“It is so hard to get things done in this world. You try and too often it doesn't work. But you have to continue. And you never give up. ”

Malala Yousafzai (1997) Pakistani children's education activist

“You have to be true to who you are.”

Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player

“But then of course everything always happens for a reason”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

“This time the struggle is for our freedom, this time the struggle is for our independence! Joy bangla!”

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1975) Bengali revolutionary, founder ("father") of Bangladesh