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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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The only problem with her is that she is too perfect. She is bad in a way that entices, and good in a way that comforts. She is mischief but then she is the warmth of home. The dreams of the wild and dangerous but the memories of childhood and gladness. She is perfection. And when given something perfect, it is the nature of man to dedicate his mind to finding something wrong with it and then when he is able to find something wrong with it, he rejoices in his find, and sees only the flaw, becoming blind to everything else! And this is why man is never given anything that is perfect, because when given the imperfect and the ugly, man will dedicate his mind to finding what is good with the imperfect and upon finding one thing good with the extremely flawed, he will only see the one thing good, and no longer see everything that is ugly. And so....man complains to God for having less than what he wants... but this is the only thing that man can handle. Man cannot handle what is perfect. It is the nature of the mortal to rejoice over the one thing that he can proudly say that he found on his own, with no help from another, whether it be a shadow in a perfect diamond, or a faint beautiful reflection in an extremely dull mirror. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

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