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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
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Believe Friendship Fun Future Hell Home Leaving Yourself
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
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Accomplishment Dream Fiction History Man Science Yourself
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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Beginning Best Experience Ideas Inspirational Life Possible Romance Science
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
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Book Burn People Run World
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
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Creativity Enemy Simplicity Thinking Try
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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Hide Ignorance Learning Yourself
I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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Fools Hands Men Myself Play Technology Thinking Toys
Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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Poet Possible Story Writing
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Love Reason Worth
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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Morning Myself Pieces Togetherness
If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
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Children Friendship Hell Help Kind Love Marriage People
I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
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Hard Work Love Myself Practice Time True Yourself
Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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Accomplishment Hard Work Word Writing Yourself
If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Hell Money Yourself
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.
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Born Cry Easy Hurt Myself People Quick Reason Remember Sad World Young
A life’s work should be based on love.
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Life Love Work

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