"Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults."

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“When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.”

“What’s the point of being in charge if you can’t indulge in pointless favoritism.”

“Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.”

“You don’t win by getting through all your life not having done anything.”

“In this universe, experience counts.”

““It’s Charlie’s soul,” he repeated. “Or more accurately, it’s a holographic representation of the dynamic electrical system that embodies the consciousness of Charles Boutin.”

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— Anthony D. Smith

Economics1939–2016

#knowledge

"When I send up the verkramptes, I am always sending up the verkrampte ghosts in me. But I never poke fun at people - it's their ATTITUDES that I find funny. Some of them seem to have their scripts all…"

— Pieter-Dirk Uys

Entertainment1945

#Human Nature

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— Ian McKellen

Literature1939

#time

"Care for the race, even if the individual must suffer — this must be the keynote of our future. This was the guiding principle which underlay all the discussions of the Second International Congress o…"

— Henry Fairfield Osborn

Science1857–1935

#ethics