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    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
    tags: love
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    Dr. Seuss
    “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
    tags: inspirational
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    Dik Browne
    “Happiness is being contented with what you got-- so get enough.”
    ― Dik Browne, Hagar the Horrible's Very Nearly Complete Viking Handbook
    tags: humor
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore
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    Douglas Adams
    “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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    Sarah Dessen
    “You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
    tags: love
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    “Is there anything more beautiful than gold?” - Freya's question.

    Plain-thoughted Thor spoke. “A farm at first light
    Is more beautiful than gold, or
    A ship's sails in the mist.
    Many ordinary things are far more beautiful.”
    ― George Webbe Dasent, Popular Tales from Norse Mythology
    tags: beauty, farm, freya, gold, ordinary-things, thor
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    Hilaire Belloc
    “Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born;
    He held the Human Race in Scorn.”
    ― Hilaire Belloc, Selected Cautionary Verses
    tags: pride
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    Douglas Adams
    “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: humour, life, science, technology
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    “Isn't the known universe filled with all manner of insipid cordials and liqueurs, of everything from honeydew melon to yoghurt? yet is there not one of beer? What genius thought of this?”
    ― Ellis Weiner, National Lampoon's Doon
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: experimentation, science, theory
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    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: food, love
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “perfect peace with loved ones far away”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Got to start by finding it, have we?" answered Puddleglum. " Not allowed to start by looking for it, I suppose?”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
    tags: find, look, narnia
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    William S. Burroughs
    “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: drugs, philosophy, politics
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    George Orwell
    “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: military, police, violence
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    Beatrix Potter
    “your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.”
    ― Beatrix Potter, Beatrix Potter Illustrated Collection
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    “Three things I will not allow in my classroom: imagination, reading for pleasure and jam sandwiches”
    ― Lyn Gardner, Raiders of the Lost Shark
    tags: school
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    Barry Hughart
    “O great and mighty Master Li, pray impart to me the Secret of Wisdom!" he bawled.

    "Take a large bowl," I said. "Fill it with equal measures of fact, fantasy, history, mythology, science, superstition, logic, and lunacy. Darken the mixture with bitter tears, brighten it with howls of laughter, toss in three thousand years of civilization, bellow kan pei — which means 'dry cup' — and drink to the dregs."

    Procopius stared at me. "And I will be wise?" he asked.

    "Better," I said. "You will be Chinese.”
    ― Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds
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    Jules Verne
    “I said, "Oh ah!"' replied the shepherd, "and I won't take it back.”
    ― Jules Verne, The Castle of the Carpathians
    tags: humour
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Matthew Swanson
    “Ben looked at the sausages. The sausages looked at Ben. They loved each other so much!”
    ― Matthew Swanson, Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Endless Waiting
    tags: love, sausages
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    Ursula Vernon
    “You're brave and not very bright, which is the key to success.”
    ― Ursula Vernon
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    E. Nesbit
    “I have no doubt that you will wish to know what the princess lived on, during the long years when the dragon did the cooking. My dear, she lived on her income, and that is a thing that a great many people would like to be able to do.”
    ― E. Nesbit, The Book of Dragons
    tags: dragon, humor, princess, whirlpool
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    Robert Rankin
    “Rio would be your man,' said John. 'Dusky maidens rolling green cigars upon their bronzed thighs. A train-robber chum of mine has his lodgings thereabouts. The climate so they say is ideal for the professional drinking man or the unemployed war criminal.”
    ― Robert Rankin, East of Ealing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    H.L. Mencken
    “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, politics, predictions, voter, voting
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Annie Dillard
    “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
    ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
    tags: life, living
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    Harold Abelson
    “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
    ― Harold Abelson, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
    tags: 1984, maintenance, programming
    139 likes



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