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“Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake, Ensign?”
The entire bridge had gone deathly still. Colclazure swallowed again, his face starting to go pale. “No, sir.”
“Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
― Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
― Nelson Mandela

“While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“Courage is knowing it might hurt and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same, and that’s why life is hard.”
― Darynda Jones, The Graveyard Shift

“You telling everyone what to do does not make you the boss. You doing everything you told yourself to do makes you the boss.”
― Terry Crews

“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”
― Noam Chomsky

“It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
― Aristotle

“You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.”
― Bill Watterson

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte

“Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dying Detective - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children. And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Difficult, yes, but possible, therefore certain.”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline