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“Fiction is only a set of colors, however beautiful, passing over the landscape for a time - the spirit, perhaps, but not the substance.”
― Bill Bonanno

“..."but there is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time." - said the Wizard

"As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it?" asked Dorothy.

from "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz”
― L. Frank Baum

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.”
― William Shatner

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy, I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins.”
― Sammy Gravano

“You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you”
― Carlo Gambino

“Светлината на човешката душа може да светне , дори под ударите на страданието , стига да я има там.”
― Иван Вазов

“There is in the world today a great and mysterious force that shapes the fortunes of millions of people. It is called the stock market.”
― Robert Wright, The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs

“Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“Time is the fire in which we burn.”
― David Mack, Destiny: The Complete Saga

“Everything we do today defines us—because tomorrow might never come.”
― David Mack, Destiny: The Complete Saga

“Starship command is like comedy, Number One. Timing is everything.”
― David Mack, Destiny: The Complete Saga

“Before I leave this world, I am never going to say, “I didn’t do this”or “I regret I did that.” I am going to say: “I came, I went, I did nothing, I did all.”
― Qiguang Zhao, Do Nothing & Do Everything: An Illustrated New Taoism

“Everything will resolve itself sooner or later. This is the way of the Tao. Walk through life without fear for the future or regret for the past.”
― Qiguang Zhao, Do Nothing & Do Everything: An Illustrated New Taoism

“He had spent a lot of time thinking about himself, and had come to the conclusion that he was definitely not self-absorbed.”
― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard

“Reality is inelegant,” Phillip huffed. “No,” Martin said definitively. “Reality is stunningly elegant. Our understanding of it is not.”
― Scott Meyer, Spell or High Water

“I know you’re almost forty, look almost thirty, think you’re just over twenty and act as though you’re barely ten.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

“God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Ellie said, "Isn't it a little warm for black?"

You're extremely pretty, Dr. Sattler," he said. "I could look at your legs all day. But no, as a matter of fact, black is an excellent color for heat. If you remember your black-body radiation, black is actually best in heat. Efficient radiation. In any case, I wear only two colors, black and gray."

Ellie was staring at him, her mouth open. "These colors are appropriate for any occasion," Malcolm continued, and they go well together, should I mistakenly put on a pair of gray socks with my black trousers."

But don't you find it boring to wear only two colors?"

Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing," Malcolm said. "I don't want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports."

Dr. Malcolm," Hammond explained, "is a man of strong opinions."

And mad as a hatter," Malcolm said cheerfully. "But you must admit, these are nontrivial issues. We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged