"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was."

-- Joseph Heller

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“It's like a koala pooped a rainbow on my head and I can taste the colors.”
“Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.”
“Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.”

Source : Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.603, Simon and Schuster
“Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.”
“Because dead people are just like you and me, they still want things. They look at us all the time, and they miss being alive. We have taste and color and smell and feelings, and they donâ€™t have any of those things. They stare at us, they donâ€™t miss anything. They really see whatâ€™s going on, and we hardly ever really see that. Weâ€™re too busy thinking about things and getting everything wrong, so we miss ninety percent of whatâ€™s happening.”
“Individuals possessing moderate-sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth.”

Source : George Combe (1830). “A System of Phrenology”, p.106
“I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent”
“The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.”

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