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title = "Random Quotes"
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weight = 300
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["quotes", "graffiti", "education", "misery", "distributed systems",
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"the day the earth stood still", "atheism", "religion", "following",
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"regrets", "money", "perfection", "practice", "nerds", "totalitarianism",
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"materialism", "god", "time", "privacy", "guests", "proverbs", "russian",
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"incompetence", "insanity", "instagram", "leadership"]
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> If you took all the students that felt asleep in class and laid them end to
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> end, they'd be a lot more comfortable.
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-- "Graffiti in the Big Ten"
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> "There is no education that is not political. An apolitical education is
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> also political because it is purposely isolating."
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> "People change and forget to tell each other."
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-- a marquee at a fucking carpet cleaning store
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> "Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate."
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> "Preserve the old, but know the new."
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> "Distributed Systems people do it loosely coupled."
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> "Gort, klaatu nikto barada."
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-- The Day the Earth Stood Still
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> "Atheism and truth, 2 words 1 meaning."
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> "Zisla's Law:
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> If you're asked to join a parade, don't march behind the elephants."
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> "Working here is like a pregnancy. After nine months you wish you hadn't
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> come."
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> "If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all His windows."
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-- Yiddish saying
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> "When you go out to buy, don't show your silver."
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> "If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice?"
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> "Freeing the nerds was what got us here"
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> "Workers of the world, relax!"
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> "Materialism: buying things we don't need with money we don't have to
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> impress people that don't matter."
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> The sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply
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> lack cognitive meaning.
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> "Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space."
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> Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations:
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> Negative expectations yield negative results.
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> Positive expectations yield negative results.
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> "I’m being tracked by so many websites that if I get kidnapped, I expect to
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> be rescued by a team of web developers rather than the police."
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-- u/jaso151 on Reddit
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> "Nezvannyi gost'--khuzhe tatarina."
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> [An uninvited guest is worse than the Mongol invasion]
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-- Russian proverb
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> "The dynamic I'm subjected to doesn't become less toxic just because I can
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> take it."
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> "Somehow, the world always affects you more than you affect it."
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> "I suspect the people responsible are the kinds of men who get MBAs
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> specifically to boss around people who are smarter than they are."
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> "Talk is cheap because supply always exceeds demand."
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> "If you had better tools, you could more effectively demonstrate your
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> total incompetence."
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> "Seeing is believing. You wouldn't have seen it if you hadn't believed it."
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> "The world is an 8000 mile in diameter spherical pile of shit."
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> "Ah say, son, you're about as sharp as a bowlin' ball."
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> "Blame Saint Andreas -- it's all his fault."
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> "Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids."
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> "Morale will continue until the beatings improve."
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> "Law of Probable Dispersal:
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> Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed."
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> "All that glitters has a high refractive index."
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> "Aren't Instagram influencers just Ads in human form?"
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-- hackiechan@mastodon.social
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> "Don’t say condemn it because it can happen to you one day. Condemn it
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> because it is wrong."
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-- mysticashi@mastodon.social
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> "He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself."
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> "To err is human.
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> To blame someone else for your mistakes is even more human."
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> "Stay together, drag each other down."
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> "A company is known by the men it keeps."
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> "The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the
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> brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not
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> wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do."
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> "Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted."
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> "Words must be weighed, not counted."
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> "Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness."
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-- motto of the Christopher Society
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> "Feminism, n.:
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> A political position which seeks to rebuild society so that
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> both men and women are treated as women wish to be treated."
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