Quotes

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451 Ford Prefect

Time is an illusion. Lunch time, doubly so.

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452 Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.”

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453 Futurama

"What doesn't kill you, usually succeeds in the second attempt." -Mr. Krabs


Bender : I was God once.

God : I saw. You were doing very well, until everyone died.

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454 Bojak Horseman

You know, it's funny.. When you look at someone through rose colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.

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455 Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Mahabharata

“Day after day, hour after hour, countless people die, yet the living believes they will live forever,”

“What is the greatest wonder in the world? That, every single day, people die, Yet the living think they are immortal.”

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456 About Heat Death

Don't worry too much about it. In the end, everything will be nearly 0k.

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457 Marcus Aurelius

Adapt yourself to the environment in which your lot has been cast, and show true love to the fellow-mortals with whom destiny has surrounded you.

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458 Poisoning Pigeons in the Park

I'd like to take you now on wings of song, as it were, and try and help you forget perhaps for a while your drab, wretched lives. Here's a song all about spring-time in general, and in particular
Out one of the many delightful pastimes the coming of spring affords us all.

Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
Life is skittles and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.
I do, don't you? 'course you do.
But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me,
And makes ev'ry sunday a treat for me.

All the world seems in tune
On a spring afternoon,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
Ev'ry sunday you'll see
My sweetheart and me,
As we poison the pigeons in the park.

When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide,
But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide.
The sun's shining bright,
Ev'rything seems all right,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.

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We've gained notoriety,
And caused much anxiety
In the audubon society
With our games.
They call it impiety,
And lack of propriety,
And quite a variety
Of unpleasant names.
But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon.

So if sunday you're free,
Why don't you come with me,
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park.
And maybe we'll do
In a squirrel or two,
While we're poisoning pigeons in the park.

We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment.
Except for the few we take home to experiment.
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strychnine
We feed to a pigeon.
It just takes a smidgin!
To poison a pigeon in the park.

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459 Eric Weinstein

"Respectability is the unique prison where all the gates are open and the inmates beg to stay inside." - Eric Weinstein w/ Lex Fridman 2/23/2021

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460

Neurotics build castles in the air, and psychotics move in.

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461 How the World Ends

...attributed to Nathaniel Borenstein, who I vaguely recalled as one of two men who invented the email attachment, the invention so many nation-states now used to deliver their spyware. “The most likely way for the world to be destroyed,” it read, “most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.”

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462 Robert A. Heinlein

An armed society is a polite society.

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463 Fabian Giesen

Give someone state and they'll have a bug one day, but teach them how to represent state in two separate locations that have to be kept in sync and they'll have bugs for a lifetime.

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464 Anais Nin

  We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. 

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465

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular
  expressions.’ Now they have two problems.

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466 Winston Churchhill

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

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467 Kin Hubbard

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

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468 William Arthur Ward

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

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469

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.

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470

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.

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471

We are all made for mutual assistance, as the feet, the hands, and the eyelids, as the rows of the upper and under teeth, from whence it follows that clashing and opposition is perfectly unnatural.

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472

This that I am, whatever it be, is mere flesh and a little breathe and the ruling Reason

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473

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

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474

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all – that is myself.

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475

What is divine is full of Providence. Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and enfolding of things governed by Providence. Everything proceeds from it.

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