Brett Chatham

Franklin High
Senior English

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"We shall not cease from exploration /
And the end of all our exploring /
Will be to arrive where we started /
And know the place for the first time."
—TS Eliot (1888-1965)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere."
—Frank A Clark (1911-1991)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

"We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think--in fact they do so."
--Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
--Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.” 
―Pliny the Younger (61-113)
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"When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival."
--Yann Martel (1963-Present)
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"Victory has a hundred fathers, and defeat is an orphan."
--John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
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“Children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.” 
― G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”
—G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

"Resentment is like drinking a poison and then waiting for the other person to die."
--Carrie Fisher (1956-2016)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.” 
― Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

"There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself by it. All that passers-by can see is a little smoke coming out of the chimney, and they walk on."
--Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
--Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
--F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."
--William James (1842-1910)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

"There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it."
--William James (1842-1910)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

"The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind."
--Patrick Rothfuss (1973-Present)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

“If you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?”
--Richard Bachman (1947-Present)
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"All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
--Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

"The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything."
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
--Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
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"Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."
--Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007)
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[Brett Chatham @wcsFHSbc]

“Thou call'dst me a dog before thou hadst a cause;
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.”
--Shylock (from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice)
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