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“power the mojave desert with miles & miles of solar panels!”
― joy leftow

“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I wandered through the cosmos in search of the treasure but found it within me.”
― Namdev

“This King was not surrounded by love at all, but arrogant selfish
men, who’s only purpose had been to become strong enough to enter,
thus by doing so isolating themselves and their idea of what the
King should be from all the rest of their kind.”
― Karry Lynn Dayton, Saint Horz - The Stone Saint

“Have you not heard? No stone can be undone! Each is a perfect version of itself no matter its size. If you were to rub a stone with paper until it was an atom, a micron in width, it would still be a stone. If you were to further rub it until it was a boson in width, its radiant perfection would still be a stone. The smaller you were to make it, the bigger and more it would become!”
― Karry Lynn Dayton, Saint Horz - The Stone Saint

“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
― Bob Marley

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

“I am the seeker, the act of seeking, and the one who is sought.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Seeker

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. ”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Those who write the rules rarely suffer their weight.”
― Mick Herron, Spook Street

“But the first bedtime story he ever did read me was Kim.' River could tell she recognised the title, so didn't elaborate. 'After that, well, Conrad, Greene. Somerset Maugham.'
'Ashenden.'
'You get the picture. For my twelfth birthday, he bought me le Carré's collected works. I can still remember what he said about them.'
They're made up. But that doesn't mean they're not true.”
― Mick Herron, Slow Horses

“Fear lives in the guts. That’s where it makes its home. It moves in, shifts stuff around; empties a space for itself—it likes the echoes its wingbeats make. It likes the smell of its own farts.”
― Mick Herron, Slow Horses