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  • #1
    “The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.”
    Kevin Thoman

  • #2
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    “C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.”
    Bjarne Stroustrup

  • #3
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #4
    Matthew Desmond
    “it is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. The reason is simple: without stable shelter, everything else falls apart.”
    Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

  • #5
    “You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.”
    Alan Brown

  • #6
    Tom Robbins
    “You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well?

    It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well.”
    Tom Robbins

  • #7
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #8
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #9
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #10
    James Joyce
    “Shut your eyes and see.”
    James Joyce

  • #11
    Victor Hugo
    “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #12
    Joan Didion
    “Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
    Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

  • #13
    Thomas Merton
    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
    Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
    tags: art

  • #14
    David Duchovny
    “Selfies, they call 'em, and that makes sense 'cause even though they're sending these pictures to others, it still smells like selfish to me. Is that why they call it an "I phone"? 'Cause it's all about me me me. Like talking to hear yourself talk.”
    David Duchovny

  • #15
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Katherine’s theory is that everyone looking to make a new life migrates west, across America to the Pacific Ocean. Once there, the cheapest city where they can live is Portland. This gives us the most cracked of the crackpots. The misfits among misfits. “We just accumulate more and more strange people,” she says. “All we are are the fugitives and refugees.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon

  • #16
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #17
    Judy Schachner
    “My name is Skippito Friskito. (clap-clap)
    I fear not a single bandito. (clap-clap)
    My manners are mellow,
    I'm sweet like the Jell-o,
    I get the job done, yes indeed-o. (clap-clap)”
    Judy Schachner, Skippyjon Jones

  • #18
    Sophie Kinsella
    “I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.”
    Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

  • #19
    Paula Hawkins
    “I’m playing at real life instead of actually living it.”
    Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

  • #20
    David   Byrne
    “Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”
    David Byrne

  • #21
    Frances Hardinge
    “True stories seldom have endings.
    I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.”
    Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

  • #22
    “Jesus never had a problem with the people who had a lot of questions. He was concerned with the ones who thought they had all the answers.”
    Maria Goff, Love Lives Here: Finding What You Need in a World Telling You What You Want

  • #23
    Tracy Chevalier
    “I have a bed and enough to eat and kind people about me. God is still with me. For these things I am grateful and have no reason to complain”
    Tracy Chevalier, The Last Runaway

  • #24
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #25
    Christopher Moore
    “If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
    Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

  • #26
    Charles Baudelaire
    “La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

    ("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
    Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

  • #27
    Alyson Noel
    “Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.”
    Alyson Noel, Blue Moon

  • #28
    Ian Bremmer
    “many developing countries, governments are becoming victims of their own success. Those who have joined the new middle class don’t just want better government; they expect it. They demand it. This is the natural result of a larger international success story that is now visible even to those who haven’t fully shared in it.”
    Ian Bremmer, Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism

  • #29
    Nelson Mandela
    “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #30
    Nelson Mandela
    “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
    Nelson Mandela



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