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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science, sex
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: science
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    Spencer Johnson
    “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
    ― Spencer Johnson
    tags: honesty, integrity, moral-courage, truth-telling
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    Steve Jobs
    “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
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    Ben Goldacre
    “And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now.”
    ― Ben Goldacre, Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
    tags: health, humor, opinion, science
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    “Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And then there are those who wonder, 'What the hell just happened?”
    ― Carroll Bryant
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    Paulo Coelho
    “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: wisdom
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    Ayn Rand
    “I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
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    Ben Goldacre
    “You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.”
    ― Ben Goldacre, Bad Science
    tags: argument, faith, persuasion, science
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    Ayn Rand
    “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Ayn Rand
    “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: john-galt
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    Isaac Asimov
    “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: humor, writing
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Ayn Rand
    “Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
    tags: paraphrased
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    Terry Pratchett
    “There's a door."
    "Where does it go?"
    "It stays where it is, I think.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Eric
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: death, immortality, remembrance
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    Max Brooks
    “Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.”
    ― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    tags: falsehood, falsity, lies, max-brooks, truth, world-war-z
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    Max Brooks
    “When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.”
    ― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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    Max Brooks
    “[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.”
    ― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    tags: fear, fight, sun-tzu
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited
    tags: education
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    J.B.S. Haldane
    “The four stages of acceptance:
    1. This is worthless nonsense.
    2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.
    3. This is true, but quite unimportant.
    4. I always said so."

    (Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)”
    ― J.B.S. Haldane
    tags: acceptance, dispute, haldane, opportunism, science, self-contradiction, theories
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    J.B.S. Haldane
    “The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”
    ― J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
    tags: imagination, misattributed-arthur-c-clarke, physics, science, universe
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    J.B.S. Haldane
    “The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder”
    ― J.B.S. Haldane
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    Og Mandino
    “Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.”
    ― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
    tags: goals-in-life, wealth
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    Steven Moffat
    “Demons run when a good man goes to war
    Night will fall and drown the sun
    When a good man goes to war

    Friendship dies and true love lies
    Night will fall and the dark will rise
    When a good man goes to war

    Demons run, but count the cost
    The battle's won, but the child is lost”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor-who
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