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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Grant Morrison
    “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
    ― Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
    tags: adults, batman, children, comics, fiction, literature, reality, superheroes, superman
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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    “I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: insanity, stupidity
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    Michael Grant
    “So many things I'm not, and so few things I am.”
    ― Michael Grant, Gone
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
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    Stan Lee
    “Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus?”
    ― Stan Lee
    tags: comics, inspirational, marvel, marvel-comics, stan-lee
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    “Depth is not something the writer puts into a book; it's something the reader takes out of it.”
    ― Michael Carroll
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, philosophical, politics, religion, religious
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    Rick Riordan
    “Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
    tags: jason, names
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: magic, science
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    “Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
    ― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
    tags: philosophy, science, search-for-meaning
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    “If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.”
    ― Taylor Swift
    tags: bullying, humor, inspirational, people, song, song-writing, taylor-swift
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    Michael Crichton
    “The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
    tags: ontology
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
    tags: magic, science, technology, wonder
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    Douglas Adams
    “The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
    To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
    To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: elections, hg2g, politics, rulers
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    Michael Grant
    “In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king”
    ― Michael Grant, Fear
    tags: thought-provoking
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: motivational
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    Rick Riordan
    “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
    tags: nico
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    Rick Riordan
    “I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.”
    ― Rick Riordan
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    Charles Dickens
    “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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    Matthew Woodring Stover
    “The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies its weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back.
    Love is more than a candle.
    Love can ignite the stars.”
    ― Matthew Stover, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
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