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    Terry Pratchett
    “Music, landscape gardening, architecture—there was no start to his talents.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Koan ninety-seven: "Do unto otters as you would have them do unto you." Hmm. No real help there. Besides, he'd occasionally been unsure that he'd written that one down properly, although it certain had worked. He'd always left aquatic mammals well alone, and they had done the same to him.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
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    Edward Whymper
    “Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.”
    ― Edward Whymper, Scrambles Amongst the Alps
    tags: climbing, mountaineering, mountains
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    Philip Larkin
    “Man hands on misery to man.
    It deepens like a coastal shelf.
    Get out as early as you can,
    And don't have any kids yourself.”
    ― Philip Larkin, High Windows
    tags: antinatalism, mankind, poetry
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always”
    ― Dante
    tags: beginnings, inspirational, memory
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    Brad Warner
    “If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?”
    ― Brad Warner, Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye
    tags: paradox, paraphrased
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    Alexander Pope
    “In vain may heroes fight and patriots rave if secret gold sap on from knave to knave.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: bribery, corruption, greed
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    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one last visit to the washroom. Thus all great ventures have unspoken beginnings.”
    ― Thurin-Jon (as quoted)
    tags: beginnings, great-ventures, humor, humour, sources
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    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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    Izaak Walton
    “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”
    ― Izaak Walton
    tags: company, friendship, journeys
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    “The world is carried in the wild heart of a tiger. When the last wild tiger is extinguished, civilization will turn on itself.”
    ― Thurin-Jon (as quoted)
    tags: civilization, conservation, ecology, environment, mores, societies
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    “There are three sorts of people: those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea.”
    ― Anacharsis
    tags: isolation, lack-of-knowledge, lack-of-news, uncertainty
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    Juvenal
    “Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.”
    ― Juvenal, The Satires
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “The Eagle

    He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
    Close to the sun in lonely lands,
    Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

    The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
    He watches from his mountain walls,
    And like a thunderbolt he falls.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
    tags: poetry
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Much have I seen and known - cities of men and manners, climates, councils, governments.”
    ― Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    tags: age, biographical-introduction, biography, wisdom
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.”
    ― Frederich Nietzsche
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    Thomas Moore
    “There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet.”
    ― Thomas Moore
    tags: belonging, childhood, home, nostalgia, place
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    Andrew Marvell
    “The grave's a fine and private place,
    But none, I think, do there embrace.”
    ― Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
    tags: death, poetry
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    “Stones dream of shapes they might become. The sculptor has but to listen.”
    ― Thurin-Jon (as quoted)
    tags: ambitions, art, artistry, dreams, nascent, possibilities, potential, sculpture
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    Caroline Sheridan Norton
    “We have been friends together in sunshine and shade.”
    ― Caroline Sheridan Norton
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    Daniel Defoe
    “I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.”
    ― Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
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    Lord Byron
    “Fare thee well, and if for ever
    Still for ever fare thee well.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
    tags: farewell
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    Samuel Daniel
    “The world shall find this miracle in me, that fire can burn when all matter's spent.”
    ― Samuel Daniel
    tags: age, love, passion
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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith
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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith
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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith, A Life in Our Times: Memoirs
    tags: frequently-misquoted
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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith
    tags: economics, employment, humour
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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith
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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith
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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith
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