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  • #1
    Steve Jobs
    “Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
    Steve Jobs

  • #2
    Jim  Butcher
    “Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.”
    Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

  • #3
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    Frederick Lewis Donaldson

  • #4
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “For age is opportunity no less
    Than youth itself, though in another dress,
    And as the evening twilight fades away
    The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #5
    George Orwell
    “He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #6
    Olen Steinhauer
    “That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.”
    Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

  • #7
    G.K. Chesterton
    “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

  • #11
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

  • #12
    Aldous Huxley
    “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
    Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

  • #13
    Kurt Cobain
    “They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.”
    Kurt Cobain



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