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Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

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What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Almost everybody I know has died,” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

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

— Randy Pausch

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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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Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame. ↗

— Jay Bell

#life