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You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail. — Amulet 4 The Last Council
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to exist is to survive unfair choices. — Khatun (The OA)
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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. — Henry Ford
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Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him. — Emerson
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I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. — Etienne de Grellet
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I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. S o I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise. — Charles Schwab
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We do not do this thing because it is permitted. We do it because we have to. We do it because we are compelled. — Rorschach (The Watchman)
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For nature can't be fooled. — Richard Feynman
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. — To Kill a Mockingbird
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Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change -- this is the rhythem of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. — Bruce Barton
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七転び八起き (Fall seven times and stand up eight) — Japanese Proverb
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You think your present sorrow is solid, like a sphere of diamond encasing your soul. But, the nature of sorrow is closer to that of ice. Ice melts when warmth is applied. — Prospero Regained: Propspero's Daughter
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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. — Litany Against Fear -- Dune
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because failure is interesting. — The Burning Wheel Adventure Burner
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You plunge into the challenge wholeheartedly, no matter the danger. You don't hide or evade. — The Burning Wheel Adventure Burner
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When you accept authority, you must be willing to take responsibility for it at all times -- even when you don't particularly feel like it. — Elantris
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Be willing to get fired. — Mike Monteiro
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You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. — Anonymous
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Wield your anger like a steel fist and smash in their faces. — All you need is kill
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. — Foundation
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Because the farther down you go, the bigger and scarier the turtles get, with sharper and sharper beaks. Until eventually they start looking less like turtles and more like dragons — Professor March (The Magicians)
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it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great. — Sabriel
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Everyone and everything has a time to die. — Abhorsen (Sabriel)
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You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans. — Tim Robbins
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The best way out is always through. — Robert Frost
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The most important art is to omit. — Robert Louis Stevenson
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We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don’t Blink. Blink and you’re dead. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t Blink. Good Luck. — Dr. Who
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The terrible and wonderful reasons why I run long distances - The Oatmeal
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The trick is to never stop looking. There is always another secret. — Mistborn
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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn. — Faber, Fahrenheit 451
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Then I had another thought: Physics disgusts me a little bit now, but I used to enjoy physics. Why did I enjoy it? I used to play with it. I used to do whatever I felt like doing - it didn’t have to do with whether it was important for the development of nuclear physics, but whether it was interesting and amusing for me to play with. When I was in high school, I’d see water running out of a faucet growing narrower, and wonder if I could figure what determines that curve. I found it was rather easy to do. I didn’t have to do it; it wasn’t important for the future of science; somebody else had already done it. This didn’t make any difference: I’d invent things and play with things. So I got this new attitude. Now that I am burned out and I’ll never accomplish anything, I’ve got this nice position at the university teaching classes which I rather enjoy, and just like I read the Arabian Nights for pleasure, I’m going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about importance whatsoever. Within a week I was in the cafeteria and some guy, fooling around, throws a plate in the air. As the plate went up in the air I saw it wobble, and I noticed the red medallion of Cornell on the plate going around. It was pretty obvious to me that the medallion went around faster than the wobbling. I had nothing to do, so I start to figure out the motion of the rotating plate. I discovered that when the angle is very slight, the medallion rotates twice as fast as the wobble rate - two to one. It came out of a complicated equation! Then I thought, “Is there some way I can see in a more fundamental way, by looking at the forces or the dynamics, why it’s two to one? I don’t remember how I did it, but I ultimately worked out what the motion of the mass particles is, and how all the accelerations balance to make it two to one. I still remember going to Hans Bethe and saying, "Hey, Hans! I noticed something interesting. Here the plate goes around so, and the reason it’s two to one is ..." and I showed him the accelerations. He says, "Feynman, that’s pretty interesting, but what’s the importance of it? Why are you doing it?" "Hah!" I say. "There’s no importance whatsoever. I’m just doing it for the fun of it." His reaction didn’t discourage me; I had made up my mind I was going to enjoy physics and do whatever I liked. I went on to work out equations of wobbles. Then I thought about how electron orbits start to move in relativity. Then there’s the Dirac Equation in electrodynamics. And then quantum electrodynamics. And before I knew it (it was a very short time) I was "playing" - working, really - with the same old problem that I loved so much, that I had stopped working on when I went to Los Alamos: my thesis-type problems; all those old-fashioned, wonderful things. It was effortless. It was easy to play with these things. It was like uncorking a bottle: Everything flowed out effortlessly. I almost tried to resist it! There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there was. The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate. — Richard Feynman (Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman)
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Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. — Bertrand Russell
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Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed. — Bertrand Russell
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That’s the thing. If I don’t dare, everyone dies. — The Doctor
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Adam Savage - How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. — Ray Bradbury
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The choice isn’t always about what you do, son, but why you do it. — Tam al''Thor (The Gathering Storm)
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People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs. — Banksy
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky. — Banksy
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. — Hermann Hesse
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. — Plato
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Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter. — Bertrand Russell
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Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found. — Bertrand Russell
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. — Bertrand Russell
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Fear is a useful spur. To the wits, and to determination, when well controlled. If we have no fear of our enemies, that leaves only contempt, and contempt leads to the enemy’s victory. — Masuri (Crossroads of Twilight)
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
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Hit hard. Hit fast. Hit often. — Admiral WF Halsey
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The truth will set you free. — Unknown
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We have met the enemy and he is Us. — Walt Kelly
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I believe in, and I will fight for, the Charter of Rights. I believe in, and I will fight for, a Canada that respects the foresight and vision of those who created and entrenched the Charter. I believe in, and I will fight for, a future in which generations of Canadians to come, Canadians born here and abroad, will have the opportunity to value the Charter as we do today - as an essential pillar of our democratic freedoms. — Paul Martin
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Do not go quietly into the night, rage, rage, rage, against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas
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I am the devil, and I come to do the devils work. — V for Vendetta
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Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stuipd. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and briliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination. — Albert Einstein
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It does not do to rely to much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing one loud noise and it’s gone. — V for Vendetta
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There are times when all you can do to survive is one single thing, however unlikely it may be, and so you act as if it can be done. — Guy Gavriel Kay [Last light of the Sun]
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... this is the Great Theater of Life. Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Good-night. — Robertson Davies
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I’m not going there to die. I’m going to find out if I’m really alive. — Cowboy Bebop (Spike)
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I don’t believe one can show greater respect than to weep for a stranger — Jose Saramago (All the names)
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Like an angel from the underworld, or a demon from paradise. — Cowboy Bebop
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Sometimes insanity is the only alternative. — Unknown
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Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right. — The Grateful Dead
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Hell is other people. — Jean-Paul Sartre
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The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that’s all it needs to be. — Unknown
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If you do not survive what you do now, you will not reach the future. If you do not think now about where you go, you will have precious few choices when you reach next year or the years after. — Colors of Chaos
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First you must survive. — Colors of Chaos
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Once expanded to the dimensions of a larger idea, [the mind] never returns to its original size. — Oliver Wendall Holmes
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When the situation is passed all remedies, it is righteousness to take to sword. — Guru Gobind Singh
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You’re walking on gallows ground, and there’s a rope around your neck and a raven bird on each shoulder waiting for your eyes, and the gallows tree has deep roots, for it stretches from heaven to hell, and our world is only the branch from which the rope is swinging. — Neil Gaiman
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Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don’t desire, but they’re inevitable, we have to face them. It’s what being human is all about. — Cowboy bebop (Jet)
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As sure as waters wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. — Neil Gaiman
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I believe life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it. — Neil Gaiman
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Its easy, there’s a trick to it, you do it or you die. — Neil Gaiman
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The trick is to just keep moving. — M*A*S*H
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Living was struggling to do something impossible - to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried! — Dragonflight
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Don’t think you are, know you are. — Morphious
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Just so. Opening your eyes is all that is needed. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth. — A Game of Thrones
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Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glint on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain. When you wake in the morning hush, I am the swift, uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circling flight. I am the soft starlight at night. Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep. Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there, I did not die! — Mary Frye (1932) [Do not stand at my grave and weep.]
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You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge — Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Don’t ask permission. Just do it! It’s easier to apologize for having done something than it is to get permission to do it. — Admiral Grace Hopper
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If you would take a mans life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. — A Game of Thrones
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They can because they think they can. — Virgil, Aeneid
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Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all. — William Goldman
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All worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is to poor to buy. — C.S. Lewis
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Let’s make these machines do something they’ve never done before, lets make them sing! — Microserfs
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For every fact there is a infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more you see. — Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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What I was I no more remain. — Mary Queen of Scots
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Tell me and I may forget, Show me and I may remember, Involve me and I’ll understand. — Chinese Proverb
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Just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be. — NIN
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Any dream worth having, is worth fighting for. — Professor Xavier
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There comes a point in every mans life when he must stop thinking and start doing. — Ben Sisko
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. — Shakespeare
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Only he can command who has the courage to disobey. — William McDougall
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It’s a good day to die. — Worf son of Mogh
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Plan to throw one away; you will anyhow. — Fred Brooks
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I’m a thief, I’m a liar, I’m an angel in the fire. — Our Lady Peace
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Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Enupery
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Even if it’s a stupid dream holding on to it is my only proof of who I am. If I run away now all that I’ve been – all that I’ve tried to be – will become a lie. — Battle Angel (Hugo)
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Too fucked up to care anymore. — NIN
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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. — Ursula K. Le Guin
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Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled. — Spock
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In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the absurd. — Miguel do Unamun
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Any view of things that is not strange is false. — Sandman
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It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. — Sandman
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. — Niccold Machiavelli
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Funny, as grim as things look right now I kind of like the challenge. — Dragonball Z (Goku)
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There’s nothing in this world of value. Nothing worth risking our lives for except perhaps what little we can create ourself. — Battle Angel (Ido)
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Everyone’s out to get you mother fucker. — Beck
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I’ve never been one to play it safe. I choose to try. — Picard, ST:TNG
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She’s got everything delightful, she’s got everything I need. — The Grateful Dead (Sugar Magnolia)
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You who chose to lead must follow, but if you fall you fall alone. If you should stand who’s to guide you? If I knew the way I would take you home. — The Grateful Dead (Ripple)
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You can only be what you are. — Battle Angel (Ido)
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Smile pretty and watch your back. — Ani Defranco
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As a nation of free men, we will live forever or die by suicide. — Unknown
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Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough. — Wyszkowski’s Second Law
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Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourself. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must. — Sandman
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His eyes were cold. As cold as the bitter winter snow that was falling outside. Yes, cold and therefore difficult to chew. — Unknown
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What have I become my sweetest friend? Everything goes away in the end. — NIN
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There are no responsibilities too small for your concern, nor none too great to be borne. — Timegod (Martel)
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You sing when you can, not when someone wants you to. — Timedivers Dawn (Stammis)
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We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code. — David Clark
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Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you. — Unknown
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I wish I felt something. — NIN
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We walk the narrow path Beneath the smoking skies Sometimes you can barely tell the difference Between the darkness and the light Do we have faith in what we believe? The truest test is when we cannot, When we cannot see. — Jane Silberry
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Truth is lived, not taught. — The Glass Bead Game
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Head like a hole, black as your soul, I’d rather die then give you control. — NIN
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Always the principle of a thing is more important than the thing itself. — Lord of the Isles (Sharina)
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The sweetest tounge, has the sharpest tooth. — Unknown
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The power comes in response to a need, not a desire. You have to create that need. — Dragonball Z (Goku)
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We will honour the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die. — Bruningee Song - Lexx
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Krishna answers. “I am Time, Arjuna – and now, here at this place of battle, I am the mighty world-destroying Time. With or without you, the warriors are arrayed to fight, and whether on the righteous or corrupt side, they are readied for their ruin and must die. The destruction of enemies is inevitable. It is not possible for an individual person to avert the design of Divinity.” — The Bhagavad Gita
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Nothing can hurt me, nothing can hurt me, nothing can stop me now. — NIN
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It’s better to burn out than to fade away. — Kurt Cobain
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If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it. Mr. Speaker, together as a nation, together as Canadians: Let us step forward. — Paul Martin
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Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me. — Jim Morrison
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I’m not like them But I can pretend The sun is gone But I have a light The day is done But I’m having fun I think I’m dumb Or maybe just happy. — Kurt Cobain
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. — Henry David Thoreau
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The future is just a fucking concept that we use to avoid living today. — 6 Feet Under
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What does it mean to succeed? Most people see success as being rich and famous or powerful and influential. Others see it as being at the top of their profession and standing out from the rest. The wise see success in a more personal way; they see it as achieving the goals they have set for themselves, and then feeling pride and satisfaction in their accomplishments. True success is felt in the heart, not measured by money and power. So be true to yourself and achieve the goals you set. For success is reaching those goals and feeling proud of what you have accomplished. — Tim Tweedie
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The night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting. That’s pride fucking with you. Fuck pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps. — Pulp Fiction (Marcellus Wallace)
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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. — Juan Ramon Jimenez
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That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want. — Farenheit 451 (Montag)
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Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile deliquents. — Farenheit 451 (Faber)
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Now you will apologize to me, and you will call me by my right name, or I will - with enormous pleasure - devote the rest of my life to hunting you down and destorying everything that you care for and everything that you are. — Neil Gaiman (Stardust)
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When angels go bad, Richard, they go worse than anyone. Remeber Lucifer used to be an angel. — Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere)
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Love must not entreat”, she added, “or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. — Hermann Hesse (Damian)
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In the land of the dark the Ship of the Sun is driven by the Grateful Dead. — Egyptian Book of the Dead
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. — Thomas Jefferson
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Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why dosen’t matter any more. — Douglas Coupland (All families are Psychotic)
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My story is not a plesant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams - like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves. — Hermann Hesse (Demian)
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Where I come from, we believe in using what is closest to an enemy or what comes from him, as a weapon against him. — Terry Goodkind (The Pillars of Creation)
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Surt; he has a flaming sword, and at the end of the world he will come and harry and will vanquish all the gods and burn the whole world with fire. — Snorri Sturluson
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Never give in. Never give in. Never. Never. Never. — Winston Churchill
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If the situation or problem is such that it can be remedied, then there is no need to worry about it. Alternatively if there is no way out, no solution, no possibility of resolution, then there is also no point in being worried about it, because you can’t do anything about it. — The Dalai Lama
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Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth. — House M.D.
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Reality is almost always wrong. — House M.D.
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Gravity is a harsh mistress. — The Tick
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You’re going sane in a crazy world. — The Tick
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Of course I’m crazy, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong. I’m mad but not ill. — Robert Anton Wilson (Werewolf Bridge)
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Knowledge is a weapon John. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to battle — Maester Aemon (A Feast for Crows)
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The worst isn’t done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. — Samwell Tarly (A Feast for Crows)
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. — Eric Hoffer
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To this I will make reply although he be a god and it will mean my death. — Kevin Laine (The Wandering Fire)
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A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. — Unknown
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Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. — Philip K. Dick
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There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes. — Doctor Who
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In preparing for battle, plans are useless but planning is indispensable. — Dwight Eisenhower
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It is at this point that Shaftoe makes his big decision. It is surprisingly easy - but then, really stupid decisions are always the easiest — Neil Stephenson (Cryptonomicon)
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To know one thing, you must know the opposite. — Henry Moore
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Sometimes, you know, you’ve just got to let go. — Richard Morgan (Blackman)
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Freedom is something you have to take for yourself. — Cory Doctorow (Little Brother)
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Do not try to imitate the old masters. Seek what they sought. — Basho
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. — Sir Winston Churchill
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. — R. Buckminster Fuller
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If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with anything original. — Ken Robinson
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. — Plato
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No matter how far down the wrong road you’ve gone, turn back. — Turkish proverb
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system. — John Gall
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Force your way down a path you choose to take and do it all yourself. — Simon (Gurren Lagann)
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You know, I was once belted like that too. At the time, you might think it’s a mistake you can never undo. Even if it is, if we kick and scream and fight like hell, we move forward a little bit. I was taught to believe in the me that believes in myself! — Simon (Gurren Lagann)
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Kick logic out and do the impossible. — Kamina (Gurren Lagann)
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Veritas Vos Liberabit (The truth will set you free.)