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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:50:31 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Jason add a quote by Neil Gaiman]]>
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	    <![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/4986]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. 

I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. 

I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. 

I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. 

I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds. 

I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. 

I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. 

I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. 

I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. 

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. 

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it." -- Neil Gaiman]]>
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		<guid>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/42227</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:50:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Jason add a quote by Neal Stephenson]]>
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	    <![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/42227]]>
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	    <![CDATA["...But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves that the opposite was true - that the world had once been a splendid, orderly place...and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since." -- Neal Stephenson]]>
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		<guid>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/12317</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:50:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Jason add a quote by Neal Stephenson]]>
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	    <![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/12317]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead." -- Neal Stephenson]]>
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		<guid>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/907</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:50:42 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Jason add a quote by Neil Gaiman]]>
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	    <![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/907]]>
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	    <![CDATA["When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning." -- Neil Gaiman]]>
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		<guid>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/87207</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:50:42 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Jason add a quote by Neal Stephenson]]>
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	    <![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/87207]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was." -- Neal Stephenson]]>
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		<guid>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/16261</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:57:31 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Jason add a quote by Neil Gaiman]]>
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	    <![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/16261]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal." -- Neil Gaiman]]>
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		<guid>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/7391</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:57:49 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Jason add a quote by Neil Gaiman]]>
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	    <![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/7391]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked.  This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.  " -- Neil Gaiman]]>
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		<guid>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/37817</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:58:06 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Jason add a quote by Neil Gaiman]]>
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	    <![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/37817]]>
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	    <![CDATA["You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime." -- Neil Gaiman]]>
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		<guid>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/21556</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:51:25 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Jason add a quote by Neil Gaiman]]>
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	    <![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/21556]]>
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		<description>
	    <![CDATA["He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once." -- Neil Gaiman]]>
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		<guid>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/11285</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:51:25 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Jason add a quote by Neil Gaiman]]>
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	    <![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/11285]]>
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	    <![CDATA["God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time" -- Neil Gaiman]]>
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		<guid>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/70732</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:16:48 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Jason add a quote by Iain Banks]]>
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	    <![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/70732]]>
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	    <![CDATA["You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history" -- Iain Banks]]>
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		<guid>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/20714</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:48:09 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Jason add a quote by Bill Watterson]]>
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	    <![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/20714]]>
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	    <![CDATA["CALVIN:
Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?

When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny.

Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?

HOBBES:
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at the things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life." -- Bill Watterson]]>
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		<guid>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/20263</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:48:14 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Jason add a quote by Bill Watterson]]>
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	    <![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/20263]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." -- Bill Watterson]]>
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