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• When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

  Sinclair Lewis

• Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the…

  Kurt Vonnegut

• Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

  Isaac Asimov

• I write because I have found no other means of getting rid of my thoughts.

  Nietzsche

• Let us by no act deny anything to be true which is true; that is: let us act according to reason.

  William Wollaston

• We live today amid the dregs of time. A sense of doom is shared on all sides of the political spectrum. Democratic politics in the West has turned into a clash between two extinction rebellions and two nostalgias: an extinction rebellion of climate…

  Ivan Krastev and Leonard Benardo

• Before I was six years old,
 my grandparents and my mother
 had taught me that if all the green things that grow
 were taken from the earth,
 there could be no life. If all the four-legged creatures
 were taken from the earth,
 there…

  Russell Means,
 Oglala Lakota Nation

• History, as it is said, doesn’t repeat itself. It only rhymes. The mistakes made at one point in time have an eerie way of reemerging two generations later, as memories fade.

  Robert Reich

• Steve (Jobs) has a reality distortion field. In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he’s not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.

  Bud Tribble

• Information is surprise

  Claude Shannon

• Information is all around us and comes in many forms. It's not just bits and bytes, it's also the element of surprise we experience when we learn something new. Claude Shannon, a Pioneer in the field of information theory proposed that the receiver…

  Chris Ferrie

• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional!

  Chili Davis

• Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.

  Captain James Tiberius Kirk

• The bottom line on parallel computing: you cannot produce a baby in one month by doing it with nine women.

  Unknown

• Back off, man. I'm a scientist

  Dr. Venkman, GhostBusters

• What hath God wrought?

  Samuel Morse

• I'm not a complete idiot... Several parts are missing!

  Groucho Marx

• The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate any need for intelligent thought.

  Alfred Whitehead

• It doesn't matter what happens in the end. What matters is what you do now.

  Rana Dajani

• Once space is conquered, all that will be left is here.
Once time is conquered, all that will be left is now.
Do not lament on our parting, for between here and now, should we not meet again?

  Andrew Shane Huang