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    Friedrich Schiller
    “Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?”
    ― Friedrich Schiller, Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua
    tags: lion, roar, sleeping
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    Douglas Adams
    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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    Piers Anthony
    “I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.”
    ― Piers Anthony
    tags: publishers, storytelling
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
    tags: claire-fraser, historical-fiction, romance, scotland, time-travel
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    Martin Heidegger
    “Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.”
    ― Martin Heidegger
    tags: obvious, scholastic
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    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
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    Anaïs Nin
    “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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    Timothy Zahn
    “If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.”
    ― Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
    tags: obvious, subtlety
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: attributed-no-source, humor, misattributed-douglas-adams, wit
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    Terry Pratchett
    “There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: day, death, night, rebirth, reincarnation, sleep
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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    “Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: individuality
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  • #21
    “Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: buffy, joss-whedon, passion, season-2, ty-king
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    “Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: buffy-the-vampire-slayer, changes, inspirational, life, self-determination, self-discovery, strength, whistler
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    “You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: humor, malediction
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    “There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: fandom, fanfiction, fantasy, humour
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    “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: firefly, humour, irony, show-business, wit
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    “Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan.
    Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus.
    Cordelia: I stand corrected.
    Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.”
    ― Mutant Enemy/ Joss Whedon
    tags: humour, perspective
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  • #27
    “You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: characters, fiction-writing, human-nature, journey, life-lessons, truth
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  • #28
    “Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: humanism
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  • #29
    “I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.”
    ― joss whedon
    tags: funny
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    “The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.”
    ― Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 1: The Long Way Home
    tags: buffy-the-vampire-slayer, changing-the-world, epiphany, humour, irony
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