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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: beaurocracy, humor
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    Michael Dobbs
    “Morality, Sir, is the monologue of the unexcited and the unexcitable, the revenge of the unsuccessful, the punishment of those who tried and failed, or who never had the courage to try at all.”
    ― Michael Dobbs, To Play the King
    tags: cynicism, house-of-cards, politics
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    Nonjon
    “Matty just rolled his eyes and walked over to his older brother. "Why is it when everyone thinks they're on their death bed, they suddenly find Jesus?"
    Jayne shrugged and replied, "Because that's where he likes to hang out?”
    ― Nonjon
    tags: humor, jesus, life-and-death, religion
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    Evan Wright
    “You find surprising things about the privite life of a country when you invide it”
    ― Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
    tags: marines, war
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
    tags: kill, killing
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    William Goldman
    “You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked.
    "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    ― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
    tags: life, pain
    6212 likes

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    William Goldman
    “Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: absurd, beauty, conceit, humor, love
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    William Goldman
    “Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: life
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    William Goldman
    “My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: retribution, revenge
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    William Goldman
    “Inconceivable!"
    "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: bride, funny, humor, movie, princess
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    William Goldman
    “Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: cynics, humor, life, romantics, writing
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    William Goldman
    “Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: buttercup, garden, heart, hidden-treasure, love, secret, the-princess-bride, walls, william-goldman
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    William Goldman
    “You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you."
    You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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    William Goldman
    “You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: gentleman, kidnap, steal, the-princess-bride
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    William Goldman
    “I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said.
    "God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: humour
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    William Goldman
    “What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?”
    ― William Goldman, Marathon Man
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble."
    "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg.
    "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: belief, gods, occult
    134 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: fantasy, heaven
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    George R.R. Martin
    “At the Trident, those brave men Viserys spoke of who died beneath our dragon banners - did they give their lives because they believed in Rhaegar's cause, or because they had been bought and paid for?" Dany turned to Mormont, crossed her arms, and waited for an answer.
    "My queen," the big man said slowly, "all you say is true. But Rhaegar lost on the Trident. He lost the battle, he lost the war, he lost the kingdom, and he lost his life. His blood swirled downriver with the rubies from his breastplate, and Robert the Usurper rode over his corpse to steal the Iron Throne. Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Those are brave men... lets go kill them”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A dead enemy is a joy forever”
    ― George R.R. Martin
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    Robert D. Kaplan
    “Mass education, because it produces hosts of badly educated people liberated from fatalism, will contribute to instability (p. 123).”
    ― Robert D. Kaplan, The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
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    Robert D. Kaplan
    “As Napoleon said, to know a nation's geography is to know its foreign policy”
    ― Robert D. Kaplan, The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
    tags: geopolitics
    41 likes

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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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    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: violence
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy
    tags: belief, democracy, government, humor, ignorance, intelligence, pathetic, political-commentary, politics, public-office
    355 likes

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    H.L. Mencken
    “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
    tags: attitude, definitions, fear, happiness, orthodoxy, puritanism, strictness
    520 likes

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  • #30
    “Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one’s self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)”
    ― Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay, The Complete Yes Minister
    tags: humor, politics
    17 likes



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