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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Ben Aaronovitch
    “You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house.
    "Just a small one," said Nightingale.
    "So magic is real," I said. "Which makes you a...what?"
    "A wizard."
    "Like Harry Potter?"
    Nightingale sighed. "No," he said. "Not like Harry Potter."
    "In what way?"
    "I'm not a fictional character," said Nightingale.”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London
    tags: harry-potter-reference
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    Ben Aaronovitch
    “The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho
    tags: cern, doctor-who, fun
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    Ben Aaronovitch
    “Conflict resolution,' said Nightingale. 'Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?'
    'Yes, sir,' I said. 'But don't worry, they also teach us how to beat people with phone books and the ten best ways to plant evidence.”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Ben Aaronovitch
    “If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down.

    Unless they're drunk, of course.

    Or stoned.

    Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one.

    Or Glaswegian.”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho
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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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    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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    Ben Aaronovitch
    “Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Under Ground
    tags: batman, humor
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    Ben Aaronovitch
    “What's the biggest thing you've zapped with a fireball?' I asked.
    'That would be a tiger,'said Nightingale.
    'Well don't tell Greenpeace,' I said. 'They're an endagered species.'
    'Not that sort of tiger,' said Nightingale. 'A Panzer-kampfwagen sechs Ausf E.'
    I stared at him. 'You knocked out a Tiger tank with a fireball?'
    'Actually I knocked out two,' said Nightingale. 'I have to admit that the first one took three shots, one to disable the tracks, one through the driver's eye slot and one down the commander's hatch - brewed up rather nicely.”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho
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    Ben Aaronovitch
    “...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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  • #23
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: opportunity
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    Ben Aaronovitch
    “If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth. The worst part is staying in the room after you've broken the news, so that you're forced to be there when someone's life disintegrates around them. Some people say it doesn't bother them - such people are not to be trusted.”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot
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    Ben Aaronovitch
    “My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Under Ground
    tags: humorous-quotations
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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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    Vandana Shiva
    “You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
    ― Vandana Shiva
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  • #29
    Terry Pratchett
    “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
    tags: books, humor
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on."

    "What do you find on the other side? When you go on?"

    She shrugged. "Your life again. What else?”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
    tags: perseverance, wisdom
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    Joan Aiken
    “Night's winged horses
    No one can outpace
    But midnight is no moment
    Midnight is a place.

    Meet me at Midnight,
    Among the Queen Anne's Lace
    Midnight is not a moment,
    Midnight is a place—

    When, when shall I meet you
    When shall I see your face
    For I am living in time at present
    But you are living in space.

    Time is only a corner
    Age is only a fold
    A year is merely a penny
    Spent from a century's gold.

    So meet me, meet me at midnight
    (With sixty seconds' grace)
    Midnight is not a moment;
    Midnight is a place.”
    ― Joan Aiken, Midnight is a Place
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