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“The best way to the vanquish your enemies on the internet? Ignore them. The best way to make friends on the internet? Say nice things about them.”
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“Sois sage. Be wise.”
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“WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING RIGHT OR BEING KIND, CHOOSE KIND.”
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“Guys. So overrated.”
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“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”
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“Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.”
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Screw your parents. Screw your ex. Screw everyone that tells you can’t do something. If you really want to piss people off stay alive. If you go blowing your face off because you can’t handle it, they win. You’re dead and not annoying them anymore. Stick around just to get under their skin. I guarantee in your adventures of annoying the crap out of people while you’re still kicking around this plane of existence, you’ll find another reason to live.
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“Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better.”
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“Don’t stay too long in a job.”
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“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.Told to others, but – mainly – to ourselves.”
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