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#1

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now”
― Chinese proverbs traditional

tags: life, tree

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#2

“HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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#3

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
― Leon C. Megginson

tags: interesting

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#4

“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.”
― Morihei Ueshiba

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#5

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting

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#6

“Monsters serve both to mark the fault-lines but also, subversively, to signal the fragility of such boundaries.”
― Elaine Graham

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#7

“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
― Junot Díaz

tags: elvish, lord-of-the-rings, racism, spanish, white-people

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#8

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#9

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: knowing-others, perception, self-awareness, understanding

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#10

“Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.”
“Sir?”
“It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.”
“Sir?”
“That’s practically zen.”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

tags: discworld, feet-of-clay, prachett, sam-vimes, samuel-vimes, terry-pratchett, zen

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#11

“There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

tags: humor, religion

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#12

“Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

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#13

“I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: dc-comics, humor, masturbation

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#14

“He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me."

Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: humor

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#15

“And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.”
― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

tags: education

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#16

“No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.”
― Steven Brust

tags: vlad-taltos

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#17

“Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.”
― Steven Brust, Jhereg

tags: advice, dragons, manners, misattributed-to-tolkien

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#18

“Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.”
― Steven Brust, Dzur

tags: humor, plan, vlad-taltos

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#19

“The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.”
― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards

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#20

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting

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#21

“It't hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: bigotry, elitism, small-mindedness, willful-ignorance

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#22

“When they're laughing at you, their guard is down. When their guard is down, you can kick them in the fracas.”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

tags: polly

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#23

“Upstairs, in what had been until then the cash office, Young Sam slept peacefully in a makeshift bed. One day, Vimes hoped, he would be able to tell him that on one special night he'd been guarded by four troll watchmen. They'd been off duty but volunteered to come in for this, and were just itching for some dwarfs to try anything. Sam hoped the boy would be impressed; the most other kids could hope for was angels.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

tags: discworld, humourous

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#24

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
― John Rogers

tags: atlas-shrugged, ayn-rand, books, children-s-literature, education, fantasy, jrr-tolkien, life-changing, lord-of-the-rings, reading, real-world

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#25

“Ah, yes. Perhaps I have confused you. There was a time when my mind was full of darkness. Then Brother Oats helped me to the light, and I was born.’ ‘Oh, religion stuff.’ ‘But here I am. You asked why I am strong? When I lived in the dark of the forge, I used to lift weights. The tongs at first, and then the little hammer and then the biggest hammer, and then one day I could lift the anvil. That was a good day. It was a little freedom.’ ‘Why was it so important to lift the anvil?’ ‘I was chained to the anvil.”
― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

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#26

“When they hunt, every dog knows the position of every other dog. I wanted them to understand the duality of team and player. The strength of the player is the team and the strength of the team is the player.”
― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

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#27

“When Buzz gets in, he won't be having any parade of wounded soldiers. That'll be bad Fascist psychology. All those poor devils he'll hide away in institutions, and just bring out the lively young human slaughter cattle in uniforms.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

tags: fascism, government, hypocrisy, war

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#28

“I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.”
― Jim Garrison

tags: assassination, district-attorney, fascism, investigator, jfk, jfk-assassination, national-security, politics

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#29

“The biggest mistake of a democratic country is to underestimate the power of a democratically elected pro-fascist leader because it is always easier to destroy a castle from within!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: democracy, democratic, fascism, fascism-quotations, fascism-quotes, fascismo, fascist, fascist-country, fascists, ildan-wisdom, ildan-wise-sayings, ildan-words, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotations, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes, trump, turkish-aphorisms, turkish-authors, turkish-literature, turkish-playwrights, turkish-quotations, turkish-quotes, turkish-sayings, turkish-thinkers, turkish-wisdom-words, turkish-writers, underestimate, underestimation

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#30

“You think so? A wise ruler thinks twice before directing violence against someone because he does not approve of what they say.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

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