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“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.
-Atticus Finch”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“It's not time to worry yet”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.”
― Julian Assange, Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.”
― Jacob Appelbaum, Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet

“The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.”
― Julian Assange, Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet

“If you start feeling wonderful and powerful and like you’ve seen the face of God, you’re having a euphoric attack.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann