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“Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
― Charles Bukowski

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

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“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

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Candor disarms paranoia.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
― Ayn Rand

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There is in every madman
a misunderstood genius
whose idea
shining in his head
frightened people
and for whom delirium was the only solution
to the strangulation
that life had prepared for him.”
― Antonin Artaud

“He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
― Lenny Bruce

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy