"Too few is as many as too many."

--

Gertrude Stein

“Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.”
“I don't like all this talking in the press.”
“As soon as we get comfortable in one role, we have to take on another! Why? ... Because he wants to keep us off balance! That's why! Because he doesn't want us to THINK! He doesn't want us to QUESTION HIS AUTHORITY! So he keeps us busy! Keeps us running in circles! Like mice! Rushing from one role to the next! Well, I'm on to his game! I see what he's doing! And IÂ refuse to participate!”
“I'm really bad at writing jokes.”

Source : "Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton: The WTF Q&A". Interview with Marc Maron, www.esquire.com. September 12, 2011.
“All governments are lying cocksuckers.”

Source : "Philosophy: The Best of Bill Hicks". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 2001.
“One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can. Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.”
“On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.”
“[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.”

Source : Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

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