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--- quotes [2021-07-04T14:27] – [Professor Ross Garnaut] Teodor Väänänen
+++ quotes [2023-04-02T01:17] (current) – [Anonymous] glitter Teodor Väänänen
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 //"fainting: /v./ Mother Natures way of telling you to lie down. Which you will then do, whether you want to or not."//\\
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+//"glitter: /n./ The Herpes of the craft world."//\\
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 //"An apple a day keeps the doctor away, if you hit him..."//\\
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 //"**NOTE!** This answer may contain traces of irony. Individuals allergic to humor are asked to ignore and scroll on."//\\
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+//"When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public."//\\
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 **--- Babylon 5 Calendar, 1998**
 ===== Carl Sagan =====
-//"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five."//
+//"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five."//\\
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+//"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: if we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us."//
+===== Jean-Paul Sartre =====
+**[[wp>Jean-Paul_Sartre|Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre]]** (/ˈsɑːrtrə/, US also /ˈsɑːrt/;[7] French: [saʁtʁ];)
+[★1905-06-21†1980-04-15]
+was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines.
+//“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”//\\
 ===== Lee Weissman ======
 //"The person who calls for hell fire on others calls for it on them-self. The extent of your mercy may be the extent of mercy extended to you."//
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 //"Irony jumps the tracks, careens down the embankment, crashes through a circus, hurdles over a mink farm, and plows into the river where it catches fire, rolls over, and explodes raining down burning weasels and flaming clown shrapnel across the countryside."//\\
 **-- [[https://twitter.com/Stonekettle/status/1399142216422105101|Tweet on 2021-05-30T23:14Z]]**
+===== Yasutani Roshi =====
+//"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there."//\\
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