"I am not a visual person. I have spent so many bounded years in my childhood that I have grown used to having books as my window on reality."

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“Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.”

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“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

“The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.”

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"You know, I look like a duck. I just do. And I'm not the only person who thinks that. It's the way my mouth sort of curls up or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck."

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Entertainment1958

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"I do believe that man is a rope between animal and superman. But the superman I'm thinking of isn't Nietzsche's. The real superhuman, man or woman, is the person who's rid himself of all prejudices, n…"

— Philip José Farmer

Literature1918–2009

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"I believe that to deal with politics means to take responsibilities and not sit in churches. My political line has been the same for the past thirty years: I advocate urban, civilized and European cou…"

— Zoran Đinđić

Politics1952–2003

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— Frederick Douglass

Social Activism1818–1895

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