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“Он глуп, я в этом с вами не спорю, но, может быть, нормальный человек и должен быть глуп, почему вы знаете?”
― Dostoevsky, Fyodor

“Here’s what I believe. Shit fucking happens. That’s rule one. Everybody walking the planet knows that. Rule two: things rarely turn out the way you planned. Three: everybody gets knocked down. Four, and most important of all: after you take those shots, it’s time to stand up and walk on—to continue to live.”
― Duff McKagan, It's So Easy: And Other Lies

“Place pain in a steel box and let it float away,” Benny would say. “Pain will always be there—it’s how you deal with it that matters.”
― Duff McKagan, It's So Easy: And Other Lies

“(Actually, languages can be very tricky in this respect. The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in which he asserted that there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive but none in which a double positive makes a negative—to which the Columbia philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, sitting in the audience, sarcastically replied, “Yeah, yeah.”
― Steven H. Strogatz, The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity