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“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”
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Alan Dean Foster
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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
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Walter Cronkite
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“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.
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Sources and Acknowledgements
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Arthur C. Clarke,
3001: The Final Odyssey
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#4
“Try to avoid getting involved with somebody who's gonna need killing before it's over. It may seem to you that that narrows the field somewhat, but be diligent. ”
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Jill Conner Browne,
The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love: A Fallen Southern Belle's Look at Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and Being Prepared
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“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
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Arthur C. Clarke
632 likes
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#6
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
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J.K. Rowling,
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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#7
“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
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Howard Nemerov
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#8
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
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Isaac Asimov,
Foundation
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#9
“Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.”
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David Gemmell,
Fall of Kings
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#10
“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
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Anne Rice,
Interview with the Vampire
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good-evil
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#11
“I can't wait till I have grandchildren. When I was younger, I had to walk to the rim of a crater. Uphill! In an EVA suit! On Mars, ya little shit! Ya hear me? Mars!”
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Andy Weir,
The Martian
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#12
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
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anthony burgess
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“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
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Roberto Bolaño,
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