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“Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.”
― Joss Whedon

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“Harry" Bob muttered at me, "Stop trying to piss it off!”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Do you leave a light on after bedtime? Because I get a little scared in the dark sometimes. If it's a strange place" John Coffey”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”
― Sun Tzu

“When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home, and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here! It's wondrous...with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid.”
― Q

“Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder aloud how the snowplow driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spellings of the words. Yet there is the constant desire to find some point in the twisting, knitting, unraveling nets of space-time on which a metaphorical finger can be put to indicate here, here is the point where it all began...”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“It was a long job. It was a good clean challenge. He knew, if he went on chipping away he’d get through eventually. It is eventually that was a problem

Eventually the great A'Tuin would reach the end of the universe. Eventually the stars would go out. Eventually Nobby might have a bath. Also that would probably involve radical rethinking of the nature of time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The toughest thing is to love somebody who has done something mean to you–especially when that somebody is yourself. Look inside yourself and find that loving part of you. Take good care of that part because it helps you love your neighbor.”
― Fred Rogers, Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way

“The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Chesterton Reader: 21 Works in One Volume (Unexpurgated Edition)

“Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. ”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Now don't believe in yourself, just believe in the me that believes in you.”
― Kamina