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Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#kindlehighlight

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.) ↗

— Tina Fey

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Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out. ↗

— Blaize Clement

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To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

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They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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He who hurries through life hurries to his grave. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#life

But Marisa already knew the answer and it was too late for recrimination. The chance of even a rational discussion of the problem was forever shut out of Mama’s brain. A brutal bastard was steadily sucking the intelligence and the very life from the mother who had once been witty, wise and loving. The scourge had a name Marisa had come to equate with hell: Alzheimer’s Disease. ↗

— Anna Jeffrey

#intelligence

While it did smash, breaking a bottle over someone’s head requires a lot more force than movies had led me to believe. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#movies

Picard only saw the movie, which had the entire Tales of the Black Starship subplot removed for time. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#movies