"I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's. … I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that."

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“Very occasionally, if you really pay attention, life doesn’t suck.”

“Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.”

“I have had a dream my whole life... and it was not this good.”

“You can either watch TV or you can make TV.”

“The actors can make up their dialogue. I'm bushed, and they're all funny, and the hell with it. Maybe I'll give them a premise to work off of, like "You're all in trouble" or "Wash has a thing". They could maybe light it too.”

“Sobre o musical de Buffy, Once More with Feeling”

Resonant Thoughts

"One cannot reduce to concepts the distinction between two systems of three straight lines each but one can only demonstrate by holding to actually present spatial things. Two minds cannot reach agreem…"

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Science1777–1855

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"For managers such big scores don’t have any meaning, whether you win 5-0 or you lose 5-0. You’re elated but ‘footballistically’ it does not show the real difference between teams."

— Arsène Wenger

association football1949

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"If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance."

— George Carlin

Entertainment1937–2008

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"According to history, Malays began to migrate to Malaysia in noticeable numbers only about 700 years ago. Of the 39 percent Malays in Malaysia today, about one-third are comparatively new immigrants l…"

— Lee Kuan Yew

Politics1923–2015

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