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  • #1
    Thomas Sowell
    “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
    Thomas Sowell

  • #2
    Noël Coward
    “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
    Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

  • #3
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    Wil Wheaton
    “Wil Wheaton Says: Don't be a dick.”
    Wil Wheaton

  • #6
    Wil Wheaton
    “Things every person should have:

    •A nemesis.
    •An evil twin.
    •A secret headquarters.
    •An escape hatch.
    •A partner in crime.
    •A secret identity.”
    Wil Wheaton

  • #7
    Samuel Adams
    “If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
    Samuel Adams

  • #8
    Edmond Rostand
    “All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume.”
    Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

  • #9
    John W. Campbell Jr.
    “History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
    John W. Campbell Jr.

  • #10
    Dorothea Mackellar
    “I love a sunburnt country,
    A land of sweeping plains,
    Of ragged mountain ranges,
    Of droughts and flooding rains.
    I love her far horizons,
    I love her jewel-sea,
    Her beauty and her terror –
    The wide brown land for me!”
    Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar

  • #11
    Thomas Sowell
    “I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
    Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

  • #12
    Thomas Sowell
    “The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.”
    Thomas Sowell

  • #13
    Thomas Sowell
    “The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”
    Thomas Sowell

  • #14
    Thomas Sowell
    “There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.”
    Thomas Sowell

  • #15
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #16
    Philip K. Dick
    “Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it - grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. […] It’s the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Grief is the awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That’s what death is, the great loneliness.”
    Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
    tags: grief

  • #17
    Truman Capote
    “The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.”
    Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

  • #18
    James Baldwin
    “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
    James Baldwin

  • #19
    Earl Nightingale
    “Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.”
    Earl Nightingale

  • #20
    Earl Nightingale
    “Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
    Earl Nightingale

  • #21
    Earl Nightingale
    “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
    Earl Nightingale

  • #22
    Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is?
    “Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.

    I do. But I like to hear you say it.

    Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.”
    Joss Whedon

  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #24
    Stephen  King
    “Then hear this, and never forget it. Any fool with fast hands can take a tiger by the balls, but it takes a hero to keep on squeezing.”
    Stephen King, The Dark Half

  • #25
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #26
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #27
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I don't want to die without any scars.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #28
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #29
    “At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
    Robert Jastrow

  • #30
    “Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth. And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover. That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact.”
    Robert Jastrow



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