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    “It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
    ― R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
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    John Milton
    “Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: identity, pretend
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    Frank Herbert
    “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.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: politics
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    Jeff Lindsay
    “Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.”
    ― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark
    tags: black-lizard, vintage-crime
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  • #9
    “Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change.
    Drizzt Do'Urden”
    ― R.A. Salvatore
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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  • #11
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Eliezer Yudkowsky
    “I only want power so I can get books.”
    ― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
    tags: books, harry-potter, power
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    Eliezer Yudkowsky
    “And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star they won’t tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they’re old enough to bear it and when they learn they’ll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed”
    ― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
    tags: death
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    Eliezer Yudkowsky
    “There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky.

    But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!”
    ― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
    tags: humanism, morality, morals, philosophy, religion
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    Stephen W. Hawking
    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: inspirational, science
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    Daniel J. Boorstin
    “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
    ― Daniel J. Boorstin
    tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking
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    Stephen W. Hawking
    “[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.”
    ― Stephen W. Hawking
    tags: humor, science, stupidity
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    Carl Sagan
    “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: atoms, cosmos, dna, sense-of-wonder, stars
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    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding
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  • #20
    Margaret Weis
    “A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.”
    ― Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
    tags: dragonlance
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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    Richard Dawkins
    “I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
    ― Richard Dawkins
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    Anne Rice
    “Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”
    ― Anne Rice
    tags: benediction, paraphrased
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  • #24
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
    tags: nietzsche, superman, will-to-power
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    Anne Rice
    “I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
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    Anne Rice
    “Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
    tags: asking, courage, daring, knowledge, questions, risk, seeking, uncertainty
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    Anne Rice
    “As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
    tags: mortality
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    Anne Rice
    “Only the impossible can do the impossible.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
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    Anne Rice
    “I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
    tags: compassion, deciet, hate, interview-with-the-vampire, lestat, lie, lies, love, lovers, lying, secret, secrets, truth, vampire, vampires
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    Anne Rice
    “To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost."
    So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions."
    An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
    tags: illusions, lestat
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