“When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.”
– Unknown
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Toward the sunshine – Walt Whitman
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
– Walt Whitman
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Act out – John Steinbeck
“Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.”
– John Steinbeck
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Counts – Unknown
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that is counted truly counts.”
– Unknown
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Wasting time – Alain de Botton
‘Wasting time’ is mostly just fear.
– Alain de Botton
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Think – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Think it over, think it under.”
– A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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Laughed at – Carl Sagan
“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers.. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
– Carl Sagan
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Fuck them – Hunter S. Thompson
“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. . . . No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you.
Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn’t vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today—and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever.
Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush?
They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us—they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis.
And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
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We crave – Alain De Botton
“We crave not admiration, but to be properly known, and yet, still liked and forgiven.”
– Alain De Botton
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Power reveals – Robert Caro
“Power does not necessarily corrupt, but power always reveals.”
– Robert Caro
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Cynicism – Naval Ravikant
“Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.”
– Naval Ravikant
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It is never to late – George Eliot
“It is never to late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
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The void – Jean-Luc Godard
“The void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
– Jean-Luc Godard
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Opinion – Eric Hirzel
“The strength of one’s opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter.”
– Eric Hirzel
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Meet the unknown – Hiromu Arakawa
“A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. – Nakajima (Gin no Saji)”
– Hiromu Arakawa