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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. - Ogden Nash

“There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand.” — Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein”

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery - Andy Warhol

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

The examined life is no picnic. - Robert Fulghum

"Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about." - Solomon Short

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever. - George Orwell (from his dystopian novel 1984)

The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not. - Egyptian Proverb

“I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don’t have names.” — Helen Oyeyemi, “White is for Witching”

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. - Walter Scott

When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illumined faith, and fear into love.
Manly P. Hall

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

"Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them." - Elvis Presley

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil. -Plato

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

"Choose the company you keep." - George Washington (picked this cuz he's my 7th great-granduncle)

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. - Bertrand Russell

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.- Albert Einstein

Where no gods are, spectres rule. – Novalis

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda

"A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside." — Winnie the Pooh

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins,

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. - Leo Tolstoy

“When one’s heart is overfilled with joy, some may spill from the eyes.” - Fa Zhou, Mulan II

Pythagoras said that the universal Creator had formed two things in His own image: The first was the cosmic system with its myriads of suns, moons, and planets; the second was man, in whose nature the entire universe existed in miniature.
-Manly P. Hall

“Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back.” — Dario Argento

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music. - Ryuichi Sakamoto

“Vampires are the perfect metaphor for what we are: They’re immortal, yet they’re still human.” – Guillermo del Toro