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  • #1
    Franklin Pierce
    “ouch, an egg!”
    Franklin Pierce

  • #2
    George Elliott Clarke
    “All books are merely delayed dust.”
    George Elliott Clarke

  • #3
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Laurence Gonzales
    “But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It's not a 2,000-mile-long wall to keep Mexicans out or more accurate weapons to kill them. It's not a better low-fat meal or a faster computer speed. It's not a deodorant, a car, a soft drink, a skin cream. The way forward is found on a path through the wilderness of the head and heart---reason and emotion. Thinking, knowing, understanding.”
    Laurence Gonzales, Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things

  • #6
    Linus Pauling
    “I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.”
    Linus Pauling

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Rudy Rucker
    “For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.”
    Rudy Rucker

  • #9
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #10
    Elliot Ackerman
    “They'd all be buried together, and Haris imagined the seeds in the girl's pocket growing shoots that would swaddle them beneath the earth, the barley sprouting upward, an unexpected crop reaching toward the sun.”
    Elliot Ackerman , Dark at the Crossing



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