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    Terry Pratchett
    “No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
    "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
    "What?"
    "Oh, you'd like something simpler?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
    tags: absurd, humor, interrogation, police
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    Socrates
    “Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
    ― Socrates
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    Bryan Lee O'Malley
    “Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.”
    ― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
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    Mark Twain
    “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: history
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    Darren Shan
    “Even in death may you triumphant”
    ― Darren Shan
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    Richelle Mead
    “The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
    tags: politics, revolution
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    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
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    George R.R. Martin
    “It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: intelligence, kindlehighlight, wisdom
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A Lannister always pays his debts.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: mottos
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    Socrates
    “To find yourself, think for yourself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: independence, self-reliance
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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