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“The teacher usually learns more than the pupil. Isn’t that true?” “It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils,” came a low growl from somewhere on the table, “without undergoing a prefrontal lobotomy.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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“I’ve encountered my fair share of war reenactors over the years, but I’ve never seen a reenactment of this banal predicament: a tired woman in a dark house answering a child who is supposed to be asleep that she has no idea when Daddy’s coming home.”
― Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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“His eyes were hazel, his gray hair tousled, and he wore the look of a man who had seen too much, too soon, and been forced to deal with idiots all too often.”
― Alan Dean Foster, The Force Awakens

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“Carl Sagan put it best: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Chris Impey, Beyond: Our Future in Space

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“The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave,” he wrote. “It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.”
― Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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