L. Frank Baum Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.”
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“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
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“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?”
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“And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”
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“That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
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“But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.”
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“If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.”
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“Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.”
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“Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.”
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“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”
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“I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.”
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“Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.”
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“Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.”
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“I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.”
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“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”
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“I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”
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“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.”
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“Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.”
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“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.”
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“I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.”
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“People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.”
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“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
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“…and the next moment all of them were filled with wonder. For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were.”
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“You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.”
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“If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.”
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“If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.”
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“It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.”
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“Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13”
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