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“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ”
― Raymond Chandler

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“All thinking men are atheists.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Isn't it pretty to think so.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

“There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“DWIGHT:

Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.”
― Frank Miller, Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
― Plato

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon

“Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
― Virgil

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.”
― John Foster Dulles

“Given the burdens of informed citizenship in an era of information glut—the paralyzing prospect of total knowledge, the unending task of weighing opinions, fact-checking sources, Googling credentials—how freeing it is to surrender to the purity of unqualified belief. —”
― Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning