"I sometimes think we deserve to die, we're all so ***** stupid."

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Source : Greg Bear (2014). “The Forge of God”, p.239, Open Road Media

Greg Bear

#Stupid Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mark Watney". "The Martian", www.imdb.com. 2015.
“I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.”
“Don't let your present problems defeat you. The Chinese have a saying that if you live with a disaster for three years it will turn into a blessing. Look back in your own life at what appeared to be a devastating situation five or ten years ago. Many of those situations were the turning point that caused a number of great things to happen in your future. Regardless of what happens today, realize it is the beginning of something good.”
“Dare to be honest and fear no labor.”

Source : Robert Burns, James Currie, Robert Hartley Cromek (1839). “The prose works of Robert Burns: with the notes of Currie and Cromek, and many by the present editor”, p.57
“But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.”
“I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.”
“Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.”
“For the truth is a terrible thing.”

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