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    Daniel H. Wilson
    “It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.”
    ― Daniel H. Wilson, How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion
    tags: buzzaw, robot, survive, uprising
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    David Halberstam
    “Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.”
    ― David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
    tags: fear, korean-war
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Where does contagion end and art begin?”
    ― Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic
    tags: art, contagion
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    “With great power often comes great confusion.”
    ― Dan Allen, Seam in Action: Covers Seam 2
    tags: confusion, java, power
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    Jon Stewart
    “Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due.”
    ― Jon Stewart, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
    tags: america, confederation, constitution, failure
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: desires, fun, want
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    Obert Skye
    “He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.”
    ― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
    tags: birth, delivery
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    Obert Skye
    “There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.”
    ― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
    tags: hiding, mind
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    George Orwell
    “Sanity is not statistical.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    Charles Dickens
    “[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
    tags: god, heads, hearts, heaven, logic
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: fool, foolishness, learn, lot
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Robert Harris
    “Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”
    ― Robert Harris, Imperium
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