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Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

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Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full impact of World War II? Clear-cut teenage answer: we won.
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You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.
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People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.
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Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.
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I don't do normal. I have a reputation to uphold. (Thwonk)
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It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike.
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My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
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He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something from one place and fixing it to another until they grow together. We didn't start from the same tree, but we're going to grow together like we did.
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Everything's got a purpose, really - you just have to look for it. Cats are good at keeping old dogs alive. Loss helps you reach for gain. Death helps you celebrate life. War helps you work for peace. A flood makes you glad you're still standing. And a tall boy can stop the wind so a candle of hope can burn bright.
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If she's really psychic, Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, why does she need a doorbell?
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...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.
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Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.
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You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil.Good will triumph over evil, said Richard. Liar.
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We've got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the wrong things-things we can see-as being the measure of a person. We think if we win something big or buy something snazzy it'll make us more than we are. Our hearts know that's not true, but the eyes are powerful.
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And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.
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The choices we make can have lasting consequences.
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When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.
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Will we have bodyguards? We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.
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The sad heart needs work to do.
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