Quotes - Henock (Calgary, AB, Canada) Showing 1-30 of 34

#1

“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

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#2

“All this happened, more or less.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: first-sentence

1060 likes

#3

“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: drunk-dialing

1321 likes

#4

“Science is magic that works.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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#5

“How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle

tags: cat, cat-s, cradle, kurt, vonnegut

172 likes

#6

“The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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#7

“Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

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#8

“To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

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#9

“It never once occurs to him, though, that the reason he's so unhappy is that he's an asshole.”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

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#10

“It always seems to be important to have at least one person in the vicinity to hate.”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

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#11

“There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: the-master-and-margarita

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#12

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: science

2139 likes

#13

“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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#14

“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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#15

“You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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#16

“Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos

tags: free-expression, science

49 likes

#17

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: political-philosophy

1247 likes

#18

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

6720 likes

#19

“The Lord is gracious and merciful, Longsuffering and abundant in mercy.”
― Peter E. Gillquist, The Orthodox study bible

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#20

“For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

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#21

“The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

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#22

“Simplicity is a matter of taste”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

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#23

“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

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#24

“A scientific law is not a scientific law, if it holds only when some supernatural being decides not to intervene”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

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#25

“So look carefully at the map of the microwave sky. It is the blueprint for all the structure in the universe. We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. If one were religious, one could say that God really does play dice.”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

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#26

“Message reads: 'Houston, be advised: Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

150 likes

#27

“We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

tags: humanity, morality, world

424 likes

#28

“There are no answers, only choices.”
― Stanislav Lem, Solaris

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#29