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    Omar Khayyám
    “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
    Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
    ― Omar Khayyám
    tags: indelibility, poetry, regret, time
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    Richard Siken
    “Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
    ― Richard Siken
    tags: crying, love, regret
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    David Rakoff
    “There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.”
    ― David Rakoff, Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
    tags: regret
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    Mark Slouka
    “Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”
    ― Mark Slouka, God's Fool
    tags: language, loss, words
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humour, practicality, proverbs
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    Stanisław Lem
    “I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.”
    ― Stanisław Lem
    tags: interview, science-fiction
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    Carl Sagan
    “You have to know the past to understand the present.”
    ― Carl Sagan
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    George Carlin
    “Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, life-and-living
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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Ayn Rand
    “The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.”
    ― Ayn Rand
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: history, latin
    499 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On the Republic / On the Laws
    tags: minority-rights
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    George Santayana
    “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
    ― George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
    tags: history, past
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”
    ― Julius Caesar
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    Greg Gutfeld
    “A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.”
    ― Greg Gutfeld, The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
    tags: politics
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    Greg Gutfeld
    “The definition of cool: popularity without achievement. It’s how President Obama got the youth vote. Ask any kid who voted for him,”
    ― Greg Gutfeld, Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
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    “You can't process me with a normal brain.”
    ― charlie sheen
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    Leonard Nimoy
    “A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP”
    ― Leonard Nimoy
    tags: goodbye
    108 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
    ― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: comedy, funny, interview, tragedy
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    Philip K. Dick
    “For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
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    Philip K. Dick
    “My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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    Philip K. Dick
    “I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote Parsifal. It has to do with the Grail, Christ, suffering, pity and healing. Right?" And they answer, "Well, we read it and it makes no sense." SLAM.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: heaven, opera, rejection, wagner
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
    tags: humor, incompetence, social
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  • #29
    “What have I become?
    My sweetest friend;
    everyone I know goes away in the end.
    And you could have it all:
    my empire of dirt.
    I will let you down.
    I will make you hurt.”
    ― Nine Inch Nails
    tags: bizarre, friend, hurt, loneliness, nothing, random, trent
    130 likes

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    Richelle Mead
    “Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.”
    ― Richelle Mead
    tags: georgina-kincaid, humor, nin, nine-inch-nails, paranormal-romance, succubus, vodka
    179 likes



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