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  • #1
    David  Simpson
    “I don’t know what the hell that freak just said, but we’re not as backward as you cyborgs think! We know how to speak English!” The tableau continued a moment longer before Old-timer finally managed to utter, “You do?” “No! I’m lying to you! I don’t speak a damn word of English! I memorized this phonetically just to piss you off at the right moment!” the Purist shouted back at him.”
    David Simpson, Post-Human Omnibus

  • #2
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #3
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #4
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #5
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #7
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #8
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #9
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #10
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

    - I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
    - I shall fear only God.
    - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
    - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
    - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #13
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #14
    Warsan Shire
    “give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #15
    Jennifer Foehner Wells
    “Raub’s quarters were gross. They were decorated like something out of a hunting lodge crossed with a whore’s boudoir from a bad Western film.”
    Jennifer Foehner Wells, Inheritance

  • #16
    Diogenes of Sinope
    “A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils."

    Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.”
    Diogenes of Sinope

  • #17
    Nathan Lowell
    “I’m beginning to think I never really thought about it. I just did what I was supposed to do. Now? I don’t know. I don’t know what I want,”
    Nathan Lowell, Milk Run

  • #18
    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    George Carlin

  • #19
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #20
    Richard Marcinko
    “The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.”
    Richard Marcinko, Rogue Warrior

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Tom Lehrer
    “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
    Tom Lehrer

  • #23
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
    Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life



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