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- There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
- The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
- Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
- Everything terrible is something that needs our love.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948)
- People are never so ready to believe you as when you say things in dispraise of yourself; and you are never so much annoyed as when they take you at your word.
- Somerset Maugham
- There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
- Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
- The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Breakfast of Champions
- During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Hocus Pocus
- The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
- Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)
- I want to grow. I want to be better. You grow. We all grow. We're made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear.
- Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection 1971-1996
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