"Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth."

-- Patrick Ness

#Important Quotes #Stories Quotes #Storytelling Quotes

“People learn a lot about what they think they know about other people from what they see in the media. If they see certain types of images reproduced over and over again for other groups that limit them to narrow types of roles and portrayals, they start to take those prejudices into their interactions with those people in real society, and that creates all kinds of discriminatory problems.”

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“Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He found the old tune, the song of the Sunbird. And as he sung, as his rich voice echoed off the tall cliffs, the birds and the faeries lent him their voice and soon the tune drifted throughtout the garden.”
“True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is.”
“Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.”
“We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.”

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“So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees...”
“Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think.”
“The world has gotten so interwoven.”

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