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#1

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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#2

“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
― Georg Hegel

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#3

“Once you get into your thirties, you stop giving a fuck what people think about your opinions. You're more confident.”
― Aaron B. Powell

tags: philosophy-of-people, psychology

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#4

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

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#5

“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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#6

“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty, his eyes afire with admiration and cries, "That new story of yours was fine, really wonderful!”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: rewards-of-passion, writing

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#7

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

tags: death, love

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#8

“Any group arrogant enough to believe that it has the exclusive ability to "Save the Planet" will inevitably conclude that any crimes are justified in pursuit of its `higher purpose.”
― Edward M. Wolfe

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#9

“Do you drink?"
"Of course,I just said I was a writer.”
― Stephen King

tags: drinking, stereotypes, writer

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#10

“It doesn't matter how many copies of my book I sell. The important thing is that the person reading it likes it.”
― Jennifer Raygoza

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#11

“We are all part of a universal game. Returning to our essence while living in the world is the object of the game. The earth is the game board, and we are the pieces on the board. We move around and around until we remember who we really are, and then we can be taken off the board. At that point, we are no longer the game-piece, but the player; we've won the game.”
― Kenny Werner, Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within

tags: mastery-of-oneself, philosophy-of-life, zen

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#12

“I would do almost anything for him to kiss me; his possessive lips and eager tongue invading my mouth, even the thought sent tingles up my numb spine and lifeless body”
― Mercy Cortez, Never Ever After: Angel

tags: heart-break, loss, loss-of-love

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#13

“Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.”
― Lee Child, Never Go Back

tags: ha-ha-ha, yeah-do-that-jack-reacher

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#14

“More men go to church than want to.”
― Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

tags: religion

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#15

“I never favored any political party. Being a conservative or a liberal, a Republican or a Democrat, these are just labels that people use to categorize each other so that they can quickly decide whether or not they want to listen to what they have to say. Politicians are not interested in empathizing with each other. They simply try to do as little as possible in the way of serving the public while building their reputation among their peers, amassing power and wealth that is unimaginable to the common American citizen that they supposedly represent.”
― Aaron B. Powell, Oneiric: Stories

tags: government-corruption, politics, politics-of-the-united-states

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#16

“Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.”
― Aaron B. Powell, Doomsday Diaries III: Luke the Protector

tags: advantage, allow, belief, believe, con, conned, ourselves, take, taken-advantage-of, trust

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#17

“You should never rely on public transportation during the apocalypse. Everyone should know that.”
― J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution

tags: wisdom, wisdom-in-fiction

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#18

“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

tags: totalitarianism, truism

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#19

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#20

“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

[Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays

tags: dunces, genius, stupidity

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#21

“[A]ll experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
― Declaration of Independence

tags: complacency, observations-on-life, victim-mentality, wisdom

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#22

“I’m just trying to do my part to save the world.”
― J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution

tags: civic-responsibility, good-intentions, good-samaritan, quixotic, zombie-apocalypse

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#23

“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.”
― J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution

tags: apocalypse, apocalyptic, brain, brains, craziness, crazy, creatures, happiness, happy, head, human, human-nature, humanity, humans, innocence, innocent, integrating, integration, kind, kindness, like, little-nibble, live, living, living-life, mean, mean-people, mental-health, mental-illness, nasty, nasty-people, nibble, nibbling, people, post-apocalyptic, reality, realization, realize, world, yourself, zombie, zombie-apocalypse, zombies, zompoc

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#24

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: evil, religious-conviction

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#25

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#26

“If you're completely off your rocker and have delusions of grandeur in which your personal existence is of special significance to the rest of the world, all hope is not lost. Mix in enough charisma and you have what it takes to start a religion... or become a serial killer.”
― Edward M. Wolfe

tags: megalomania, prophets, religion

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#27

“Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.”
― Mark Twain, Christian Science

tags: humor, wit

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#28

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

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#29

“Patrick: America is at war with an Afghan tribe...[?]

David: Yeah, it's a, uh, long story.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Atlantis Gene

tags: current-events, suspended-animation

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#30

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

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