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honesty is hard work.
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Hard
Hard Work
Honesty
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Time didn't pass; it tailgated.
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It's always coldest before the warm.
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God is an iron... and that's a hot one.
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Hot
Iron
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I'm going to live forever, or die trying !
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Death
Forever
Suicide
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Euphemisms are for the differently brained.
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Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.
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Intercourse
Rights
Vests
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A beginning is the end of something, always.
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Beginning
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Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.
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Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.
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Art
Long
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Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
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Joy
Pain
Increased
Shared
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...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.
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Design
Failing
Over It
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Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.
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Assessment
Information
Teaching
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And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?
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Ass
Pairs
Pants
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To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.
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Life
Advice
Faces
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Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.
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Men
Kind
Stupid
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Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.
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Children
Cracks
Librarian
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We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.
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Crazy
Moving
Speed
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Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.
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Malice
Stupidity
Never
Attribute
Explained
Reasonably
Which
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The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.
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Upside Down
World
Years
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Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
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Empathy
Joy
Pain
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Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.
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Dream
One Day
Sleep
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Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
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Book
Reading
Thought Provoking
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Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.
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Compliment
Done
Like You
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You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.
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Lying
People
Track
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If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.
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Felons
Indulge In
Iron
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If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first.
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Giving
Heaven
Wicked
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Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.
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Fiction
Robots
Way
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It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?
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Couple
Smart
Thinking
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Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.
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Imbeciles
Littles
Thinking
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there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.
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Heart
Mind
Secret
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She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.
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Art
Said
Way
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The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.
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Men
Apollo
Canada
Lifetime
Mars
Budget
Nearly
Contained
Landed
Forward
Walk
Longer
Penny
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Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.
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Joy
Law
Pain
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Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.
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Dark
Fall
Mad
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And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!
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College
Games
Mean
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To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late!
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Fool
May
Too Late
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Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.
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Rupture
Threatening
Two Sides
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You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it.
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Giving
Joy
Pain
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When writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence...in love, never settle...value yourself first and this will help you to value others...life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest...everyone in the world is different, and that's ok.
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Life Is Short
Never Settle
Writing
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The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.
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Patterns
Psychosis
Reality
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And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.
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Age
Land
Perception
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Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.
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Chasing
Fun
Ideas
Information
Surfing
Turns
Whales
Cool Time Me
Across
Addictive
Finally
Link
Sucking
Telling
Web
Whale
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In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!
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Jobs
College
Educational
Night
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The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.
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Dirty
Sunday
Tired
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We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.
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Air
Baby
Hands
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It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.
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Fun
Hard Work
Smart
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This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.
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Essentials
Forever
Trying
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