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There was some enthusiasm for a Caliban village, but it quickly dissipated when people contemplated a future village school and what the mascot might look like. Orson Scott Card
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963 Stanley Kubrick
Joss Whedon quote: "I cannot abide useless people."
I cannot abide useless people. Joss Whedon
Augusten Burroughs quote: "Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in..."
Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl. Augusten Burroughs
Che Guevara quote: "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people..."
I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves. Che Guevara
It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place. J. R. R. Tolkien
Terry Prachett quote: "The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and..."
The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid. Terry Prachett
Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees... Nancy Mitford
And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo's... Michael Ende
Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged. Harry S. Truman
If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite. Ken Kesey
Iris Murdoch quote: "One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to..."
One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own. Iris Murdoch
Denis Diderot quote: "Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others"
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others Denis Diderot
[I]n the abstract, we may envision an Olympian perfection of perfect beings in Washington doing the business of their employers, the people, but any of us who has ever been at a zoning meeting with our property at stake is aware of the urge to cut through all the pernicious bullshit and go straight to firearms. David Mamet
You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well. Tom Robbins

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