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  • #1
    Neal Stephenson
    “Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
    Neal Stephenson

  • #2
    Larry Niven
    “The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.”
    Larry Niven, Ringworld

  • #3
    Edward Abbey
    “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
    Edward Abbey

  • #4
    Edward Abbey
    “Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.”
    Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

  • #5
    Edward Abbey
    “How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.”
    Edward Abbey

  • #6
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #7
    E.B. White
    “I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
    E. B. White, Letters of E. B. White

  • #8
    Aldous Huxley
    “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
    Aldous Huxley, Do what you will: Twelve essays

  • #9
    Edward Abbey
    “A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.”
    Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

  • #10
    Maya Angelou
    “We need much less than we think we need.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #11
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #12
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #13
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #14
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #15
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    Paul Terry

  • #16
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe



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