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  • #1
    Douglas Adams
    “The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
    To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
    To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #2
    Glen Duncan
    “How to describe hell? Disembowelled landscape busy with suffering, incessant heat, permanent scarlet twilight, a swirling snowfall of ash, the stink of pain and the din of...if only, hell is two things: the absence of God and the presence of time. Infinite variations on that theme. Doesn't sound so bad, does it? Well, trust me.”
    Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer

  • #3
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #4
    Douglas Adams
    “The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
    Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

  • #5
    Suzanne Collins
    “Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #6
    Justin Cronin
    “It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.”
    Justin Cronin, The Passage

  • #7
    Justin Cronin
    “Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.”
    Justin Cronin, The Summer Guest

  • #8
    Glen Duncan
    “We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.”
    Glen Duncan, Love Remains

  • #9
    Glen Duncan
    “Expect nothing and you don't need the courage to hope, nor the strength to withstand disappointment when nothing comes.”
    Glen Duncan, The Bloodstone Papers

  • #10
    Douglas Adams
    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #11
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #12
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #13
    Steve Maraboli
    “How would your life be different if…You approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day…You dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #14
    Bernhard Schlink
    “There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
    Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

  • #15
    George R.R. Martin
    “A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #16
    Tom Robbins
    “If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all.”
    Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

  • #17
    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    Walter Cronkite

  • #18
    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #20
    Woodrow Wilson
    “I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
    Woodrow Wilson

  • #21
    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    Harlan Ellison

  • #22
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #23
    Benjamin Franklin
    “To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly”
    Benjamin Franklin



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