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#1

“Humor is tragedy plus time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, tragedy

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#2

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#3

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics

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#4

“Sanity is a matter of consensus.”
― Robert Sheckley, Options

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#5

“Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor. ”
― Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles

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#6

“Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.”
― Robert Sheckley, Immortality, Inc.

tags: inspirational-attitude

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#7

“Pour la carotte, le lapin est la parfaite incarnation du Mal.”
― Sheckley Robert

tags: carotte, lapin

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#8

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

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#9

“- "What is reality?"
- "One of the many possible illusions.”
― Robert Sheckley, Options

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#10

“He shared the common human hallmark: he was simultaneously predictable and unfathomable -- a routine miracle.”
― Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles

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#11

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: goals, journey, travel

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#12

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

tags: art, artists, evil, happiness, pain

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#13

“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: danger, righteousness, war

1186 likes

#14

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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#15

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: atheism, bible, organized-religion, religion

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#16

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: writing

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#17

“I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.”
― Dale Cooper

tags: twin-peaks

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