Quotes to remember

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    "Anything? What about perfection?"
     
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    “October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!”
    ― Rainbow Rowell , Attachments

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    “I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth."---Walt Whitman

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    "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
     
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    "The average human brain has about 86 billion neurons(or nerve cells) and many more neuroglia (or glial cells) which serve to support and protect the neurons . Each neuron may be connected to up to 10,000 other neurons, passing signals to each other via as many as 1,000 trillion synaptic connections, equivalent by some estimates to a computer with a 1 trillion bit per second processor. Estimates of the human brain’s memory capacity vary wildly from 1 to 1,000 terabytes (for comparison, the 19 million volumes in the US Library of Congress represents about 10 terabytes of data)."--- https://human-memory.net/brain-neurons-synapses/
     
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    "War is when the government tells you who the enemy is. Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself." - anon
     
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    “Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.”
    ― H.G. Wells
     
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    As a kid, I never would have imagined that all the real monsters in the world are humans. - Unknown
     
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    “Awkward interests me, he said. At least when you are feeling awkward you are always thinking. When you are feeling fabulous, for example, rare occurrence that it may be, you stop thinking altogether. Which gets you into all kinds of trouble. Hence, you are for the better off feeling awkward. Just the sound of it on your tongue. Like chewing on screws.”
    ― Elizabeth Brundage, The Doctor's Wife
     
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    “All the experiences in your life- from single conversations to your broader culture- shape the microscopic details of your brain. Neurally speaking, who you are depends on where you've been. Your brain is a relentless shape-shifter, constantly rewriting its own circuitry- and because your experiences are unique, so are the vast detailed patterns in your neural networks. Because they continue to change your whole life, your identity is a moving target; it never reaches an endpoint.”
    ― David Eagleman, The Brain: The Story of You
     
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    Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd

    Voltaire

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    “What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.”
    ― Russell Brand
     
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    "So, I’m called to invoke the power of the true inebriated creator of the universe, the drunken tolerator (sic) of the all lesser and more recent gods, and maintainer of gravity here on earth. May the great Flying Spaghetti Monster rouse himself from his stupor and let his noodly appendages ground each assembly member in their seats," - Barrett Fletcher, the Pastafarian pastor, noted in the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly invocation message
     
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    “Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Jesting Pilate
     
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    “Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.”
    ― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
     
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    “... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
    ― Susan Ertz
     
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    You can pick your friends
    and you can pick your nose
    but you can't wipe your friends on the couch
    -R. Strickland (1987)
     
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    "It's not the dead you should fear, it's the living."-My mum.
     
  22. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds
    Oppenheimer

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    "I am the terror that flaps in the night
    I am the athlete's foot that you can't get rid of
    I am Darkwing Duck"

    "Lets get dangerous!"

    -Darkwing Duck
     
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