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“«I love both her and them.
I have come to understand
that she is what they are.
A woman accepts a man,
expecting that he will change.
A man takes a woman,
expecting that she will never change.
They are both disappointed.
Yet within this very disappointment
is the primal
source of all new men and all new women»â€
― Bruce Sterling

“She has halls and she has castles, and the resonant Steam-Eagles,
Follow far on the directing of
her floating dove-like hand,
With a thunderous vapour trailing,
underneath the starry vigils,
So to mark upon the
blasted heaven, the measure of her land.â€
– Edgar Allan Poe

If you want something you can have it,
but only if you want everything that goes with it,
including all the hard work and the despair,
and only if you’re willing to risk failure.†– Philip Pullman, Clockwork

“As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become
clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.†– Ernst Fischer

“Everything possible to be believed
is an image of truth.†– William Blake

“If you want something you can have it,
but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair,
and only if you’re willing to risk failure.†– Philip Pullman, Clockwork

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of
one extraordinary man.†– Elbert Hubbard

“The unreal is more powerful
than the real.
Because nothing is as perfect
as you can imagine it.
Because it’s only intangibles,
ideas, concepts,
beliefs, fantasies that last.
Stone crumbles. Wood rots.
People, well, they die.
But things as fragile as a thought,
a dream, a legend,
they can go on and on.†–
Chuck Palahniuk

Excuse me, I have to recharge my flamethrower.†– Spaceballs

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
And rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.â€
—Rumi

The game is afoot.†– Arthur Conan Doyle,
Sherlock Holmes

"I like my coffee like I like my women;
creamy, sweet, and cold to the touch."
-Wendall Handbasket,
human necromancer and closet necrophiliac

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you,
too, can become great.
Mark Twain

“All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.â€
– Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.â€
William James

"My philosophy of life is to do
what seems like a good idea at the time,
and do it as hard as possible.
It has never let me down."

“We often mingle with the world,
but our discovery is hidden away,
as it can be in a small compass, and no one suspects who or what we are.
We pass as tourists among
our fellow-men.†–
Mystery Airship Pilot 1858-1898

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