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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Like whether madness and evil are two different entities, or whether when we no longer understand the purpose of destruction.”
― Jo Nesbø

“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
― Jo Nesbo

“What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Snowman

“We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations. And because your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will, if you entertain too much anxiety about too many things, if you place no trust in providence, what you fear will more often come to pass. We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse

“We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.”
― Jeff Marder

“If you don’t have anything nice to say, take a big bite and chew slow.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, The Short Drop

“There was an old joke—it’s not the fall that kills you but the abrupt stop.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, The Short Drop

“there are kings and there are kingmakers. Regardless of what populist history might argue, you rarely have one without the other.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, The Short Drop

“Nothing is an awful big word.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, The Short Drop

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town