“What’s a philosopher? . . . Someone who’s bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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“He woke the robot up because even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Sure enough, of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path for every man; a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do”

― Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present

“the Controllers realized that force was no good. The slower but infinitely surer methods of ectogenesis, neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopædia…”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“When in doubt, tell the truth.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree—and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

“a man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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