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    Terry Pratchett
    “A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: cynicism, humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: books, libraries
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    Terry Pratchett
    “He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir.
    Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile.
    - Of course, of course - he said. - You have to believe that, I appreciate. Otherwise you'd go quite mad. Otherwise you'd think you're standing on a feather-thin bridge over the vaults of Hell. Otherwise existence would be a dark agony and the only hope would be that there is no life after death. I quite understand.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: humanity
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble!”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: carrot, humour, last-stand
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    Lemony Snicket
    “There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
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    Zadie Smith
    “The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
    ― Zadie Smith
    tags: future, grammar, language, past
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    William Goldman
    “When I was your age, television was called books.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: book, fantasy, humour
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  • #9
    “There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
    ― Pierre Dos Utt, Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order
    tags: misattributed-milton-friedman, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, tanstaafl, tanstafl
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: freedom, law, morality, rules
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: rah
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “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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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: choice, freedom, peace, war
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    tags: condescending, income-tax, pay, taxes, tyranny
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
    ― robert heinlein
    tags: writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

    [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: julia-cameron, writers, writing
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    Lewis Carroll
    “This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: humor
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
    "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
    "I don't much care where –"
    "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: adventure
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    Lewis Carroll
    “we can but stand aside, and let them Rush upon their Fate! There is scarcely anything of yours, upon which it is so dangerous to Rush, as your Fate. You may Rush upon your Potato-beds, or your Strawberry-beds, without doing much harm: you may even Rush upon your Balcony (unless it is a new house, built by contract, and with no clerk of the works) and may survive the foolhardy enterprise: but if you once Rush upon your FATE--why, you must take the consequences!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, The Game of Logic
    tags: humor-inspirational
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    Sinclair Lewis
    “We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
    ― Sinclair Lewis
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    Mary Leakey
    “Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
    ― Mary Leakey
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    Richard Dawkins
    “The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
    tags: mathematics
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    Richard Dawkins
    “…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
    tags: atheism, creation-myths, mythology, science
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    Carl Sagan
    “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: evidence, faith, science, skepticism
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  • #27
    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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    Richard Dawkins
    “Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheist, child, faith, parental-love, parenthood, parents
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    Terry Pratchett
    “In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam
    tags: individuality
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The commander went, as they say in Ankh-Morpork, totally Librarian on them.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam
    tags: discworld, humour, librarian
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