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“Have you ever noticed that things that don’t kill you make you weaker? And great minds don’t think alike. If they did, the patent office would only have about fifty inventions. I started getting suspicious when I cried over spilt milk and the cashier took it off my bill.” - Wally”
― Scott Adams

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“See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.”
― Douglas Adams

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#3

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland

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#4

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

tags: design, foolproof, ingenuity

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#5

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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#6

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

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#7

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

tags: humor, novelist, science-fiction

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#8

“As lost as I get, I will find you, Heather. Always" - Dante”
― Adrian Phoenix, Beneath the Skin

tags: devotion, urban-fantasy

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#9

“She's my kitten, and no one else's.”
― Jeaniene Frost, One Foot in the Grave

tags: love, vampire

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#10

“Nothing, Basil. I’ll see you in a few,”
Fine, and it’s Lord Basil.”
Even in the bedroom?”
Especially in the bedroom.”
― Adrian Phoenix, Black Dust Mambo

tags: humor

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#11

“It wasn't the tequila and oxy. You really are that fucking gorgeous.”
― Adrian Phoenix, In the Blood

tags: annie, dante, humor, in-the-blood

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#12

“First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.”
― Douglas Adams

tags: computer, science, technology

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#13

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

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#14

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: airports, humor, travel

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#15

“You know that old saying. Once you go dead, no one's better in bed.”
― Jeaniene Frost, One Foot in the Grave

tags: humor, sex, vampire

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#16

“If you run from me, I will chase you, and I'll find you....”
― Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave

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#17

“Lucifer's bouncing balls, Kitten, not again!”
― Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave

tags: epithet, expletives

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#18

“I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

tags: harry-dresden, humor, women

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#19

“An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

tags: danger, errands, incendiary-poo, pyromaniac-gorillas

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#20

“Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

tags: epithet, harry-dresden, humor

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#21

“Vanity, thy name is vampire.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

tags: harry-dresden, thomas-raith, vampires, vanity

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#22

“Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

tags: bluffing, harry-dresden

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“I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

tags: dresden, family, friends, friendship

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#24

“For it is a true fact that faeries, just like people, very often find that a full belly and a good friend are all that they need to be happy.”
― C.S. Einfeld, Neverdark

tags: faeries, faery, fairy, fairy-tale, fairy-tales, fey

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#25

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

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#26

“That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Local Habitation

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#27

“I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Local Habitation

tags: cats, tybalt

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#28

“You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence.

—Tybalt”
― Seanan McGuire, A Local Habitation

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#29

“Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luidaeg: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up and gives you what you want. All preschoolers have an instinctive grasp of this concept, but most don’t practice it on immortal water demons. That’s probably why there are so few disembowelments in your average preschool.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Local Habitation

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“I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Local Habitation

tags: self-recognition

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