“Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.”

― Linus Torvalds,

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“Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs be delightful and rejoicing.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“I have long really held the opinion that the amount of noise which any one can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity, and therefore may be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“These infinities represent an unending regress that goes on not just very far, but forever.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Woe, alas! to him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she’s always just some passive object to fulfill a man’s purpose.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff

“It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“The strong cannot be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

“I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly, so that there could be no mistaking it.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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