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"So they built a giant Nicer Dicer ® made from nanomaterials across the Panama canal, to stop the evil guys and their oil tanker and somehow reading it didn't feel as dumb as retelling this now." — Mar 15, 2026 12:21PM
"So they built a giant Nicer Dicer ® made from nanomaterials across the Panama canal, to stop the evil guys and their oil tanker and somehow reading it didn't feel as dumb as retelling this now." — Mar 15, 2026 12:21PM
“Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
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“There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.”
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“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“The past may dictate who we are, but we get to determine what we become.”
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