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I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-13-05
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An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.: Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.: James Madison (1751 - 1836)
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.: Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 - )
That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.: Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.: Martin Fraquhar Tupper
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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The computing field is always in need of new cliches.: Alan Perlis
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If something is not worth the few seconds it takes to rewrite it, then chances are it’s really not important.: Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method, 2018
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I read part of it all the way through.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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It is only the first step that is difficult.: Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.: Margaret Fairless Barber
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.: G. H. Hardy (1877 - 1947)
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You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.: Jewish Proverb
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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.: Ninon de Lenclos (1620 - 1705)
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