Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.

Ray Bradbury

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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

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

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Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.

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With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.

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Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.

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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

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You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

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People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

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Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.

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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

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We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.

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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

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