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Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

-Samuel Beckett

No matter how dark the night, morning always comes. And our journey begins anew. - Lulu FFX

It's from the video game Final Fantasy X, but it's still such an amazing qoute

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

"The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry."

Good is not the enemy of perfect.

You fucked up. You trusted us.

From Animal House

You make choices, but in the end, choices really make you.

Cormac Mccarthy:

"Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere."

I have many but here is one I wanna tattoo.

"This is your life, and is ending one minute at the time"

Also:

"Do what you can't"

"A day may come when the courage of men fails when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day.” An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down. But it is not this day. This day we fight"

Martin Luther King Jr.

One must imagine sisyphus happy.

Chocolate does not ask. Chocolate understands.

Life is too short to please everybody.

I can't pick just one.

Now the world has gone to bed

Darkness won't engulf my head

I can see by infra-red

How I hate the night

-- Douglas Adams, hgttg, Page 444.

When you see yourself doing something badly, and no one's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

-- Randy Pausch, the last lecture

Just go YouTube The Last Lecture. It takes an hour but you will come away different.

The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

both gramsci

“Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

― Euripides

Security is mostly an illusion; it does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

• Hellen Keller

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay

“The only common factor in all of your failures, is you.”

-Meh, I don’t know

"...because if just one of those things gets down here, then all of this... bullshit, that you think is so important, well, you can kiss all that goodbye."

• Ellen Ripley

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." GRRM

"Man was born free, but everywhere is in chains." -Rousseau

If we could understand but a single flower it could change our lives.

No clear attribution I could find.

"Cause nothin' moves faster than the hands of time"

The world belongs to the intelligent, the universe belongs to the wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Yeah, I always wanted to be a well known idiot. - Niko Bellic, after not wanting to appear on camera associated with a street justice man

"Be careful what you wish for"

--Aesop--

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

"Don't whistle while you're pissing." ---Hagbard Celine - Illuminatus by Robert Anton Wilson