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“There needs to be an error code that means “I received your request but decided to ignore you.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.”
― Brendan Francis Behan

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
― Julia Child

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Sleeping with Strangers

“Strange things happen between here and there,”
― Nathan Lowell, Milk Run

“one may need to undergo several regimens of training and sample several different professions before determining where one’s strongest talents lie. This is the driving force behind many life-path alterations. There are few sets of skills that match only one specific job. More often they are adaptable to many different professions. Sometimes, one can plan such a change. Other times, the change appears without warning. In both instances, one must be alert and carefully consider all options. Not every change is a step forward. —”
― Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn

“Yes, you’re here to do a job, but more than that, you’re here to grow as a person, so you can do bigger jobs and take on bigger challenges for us in the future. It’s my responsibility to give you the opportunity to grow into those future roles. Not just to get projects completed here and now.”
― Ell Leigh Clarke, Cloaked

“Popcorn is a miracle of physics, thermodynamics, and nature,” Keffoule said. “The kernels are like snowflakes in that each is unique, and therefore special, but they were formed by such an exact process that it could have been no other way.”
― Joe Zieja, Communication Failure

“Duty isn’t a buffet where you pick what you want and ignore the rest.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“Good or bad is irrelevant. We walk the path laid out for us. Going back is never an option.”
― K.B. Wagers, Beyond the Empire

“Sometimes the needs of the mission outweigh the requirements of the rulebook,”
― Gareth L. Powell, Embers of War

“If there was a hell, it was in sales.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. —Thomas Jefferson, Letters, 1790”
― Jack McDevitt, The Long Sunset

“Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera

“If you’re going to be an expert in something, then you need to be an expert in all aspects of it. From what makes it work to what makes it desirable to what makes it flawed.”
― Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Searching for the Fleet

“Bogons?” “Hypothetical particles of cluelessness. Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting the machinery work again.”
― Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives

“Only the foolish and the uncaring make guarantees. Circumstances change, the world moves on, While wisdom, and sometimes decency, Require constant adjustments.”
― Jack McDevitt, Octavia Gone

“was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers