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“I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.”
― Takeshi Shudo, The Art of Pokemon, The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back!

tags: history, identity, life, mewtwo, origin, pokemon

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#2

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

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#3

“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animals, four, humans, legs, two

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#4

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

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#5

“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
― Chuck Close, Chuck Close

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#6

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
― Voltaire

tags: doubt

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#7

“Socialism, like every other impassioned human effort, will flourish best under martyrdom. It will languish and perish in the dry sunlight of open discussion.”
― Stephen Leacock, The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice

tags: discussion, martyrdom, socialism

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#8

“When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don’t expect to see a zebra”
― Rolf Dobelli, The Art of Thinking Clearly

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#9

“The truth has nothing to fear from inquiry." -”
― Matt Dillahunty

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#10

“Hope?! Hope is a bit desperate, isn't it? Hope is right below wishful thinking and right above performing a rain dance.”
― Rich Hall

tags: hope, humour

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#11

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

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#12

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

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#13

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

tags: autumn

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#14

“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
― Albert Camus

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#15

“I rebel; therefore I exist.”
― Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, rebel

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#16

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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#17

“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
― Albert Camus, Summer in Algiers

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#18

“One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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#19

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

tags: data, deduction, information, mistake, theories, theory

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#20

“Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.”
― Dave Gorman, Are You Dave Gorman?

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#21

“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing

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#22

“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”
― Alan Turing

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#23

“Good things come to those who wait, but shit pretty much shows up right away, doesn't it?”
― Rich Hall

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#24

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

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#25

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

tags: attributed-no-source, humor, misattributed-douglas-adams, wit

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#26

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic

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#27

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humor, philosophy, science-fiction

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#28

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

tags: design, foolproof, ingenuity

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#29

“The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: 42

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#30

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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