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So I absolutely believe this: The people who try to ban books truly believe that books are powerful, that reading is a powerful practice, that reading can change who you are. - Emily Knox (Anti-censorship advocate) 

With respect sir, we can’t bury our heads in the sand. I mean think of how much we could learn. ...

- Samantha Carter (Fictional character SG-1) 

Just tenaciously keep shooting the puck at the net. Good things will happen. Trust me on this. - 

Al Babe (Blogger; Momentum Swing)

Just by shooting the puck, we opened up more opportunties. - Guy Carbonneau, hockey player/coach (paraphrase)

If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago. - Oma DeSala (Fictional character; Star Gate SG1)

"People are asking me why I endorsed the use of 'We're Not Gonna Take It' for the Ukrainian people and did not for the anti-maskers. . . Well, one use is for a righteous battle against oppression; the other is a infantile feet stomping against an inconvenience." - Dee Snider (Lead singer from Twisted Sister)

I said I didn't have much use for one. Didn't say I didn't know how to use it. - Matthew Quigley (Fictional character - Quigley Down Under)

The sounds we make, our body language, the pheromones we emit. . .all these things say something not only to others of our species, but to all the others. Why is that so scary? Why do some of us so resist allowing our visions to expand? . . . Some of us are satisfied if we can only tell one another that we're hungry. Otherw want to tell the world, and change it if we can. . . . Just because we aren't listening, or don't know how to listen, doesn't mean they aren't talking. - Susan F. Boucher (Partnering Pegasus; Intimate Nature - The Bond Between Women and Animals)

"I've . . . taken to leaving out table scraps for the pigs. I toss, they eat. . . . This is their party, and I wasn't exactly invited."

 - Barbara Kingsolver (Making Peace; Intimate Nature - The Bond Between Women and Animals) on wildlife in her yard.

"...nothing real is every black and white; the meaning is always nestled, like a sleeping wolf in the wind-swept snow, somewhere in the shades that drift between th arch of unyielding black and immaculate white." - Renee Askins (Shades of Grey; Intimate Nature - The Bond Between Women and Animals)

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That's not weakness, that is life. - Patrick Stewart, actor