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Alan’s Quotes

“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: congratulations, encourage, encouraging, succeed, success

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“Fear is the mind-killer.”
― Frank Herbert , Dune

tags: 1965, fear, litany, panic, serenity

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“I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.”
― Harlan Ellison

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“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.”
― Jack Vance, Tales of the Dying Earth

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