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Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

🧵 quotes that shape a very particular sub-vibe of mine

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut?"

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"The sparrow flies south for winter"

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly- I'll beat you unfairly first."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"There was something of a stolid resignation about them all, as if they walked a hall in another world between lines of nameless guards to a certain and familiar doom."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"Doors are for people with no imagination."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"General Dreedle had wasted too much of his time in the Army doing a his job well, and now it was too late."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"Under a cold and empty winter sky stood a wee, small man with a silver sword. He jumped and stabbed in a fevered frenzy, Fighting the shadows massed before him..."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"Face with the choice of changing on'es mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"Why do people come to Malta for eggs when they're so expensive there?" "Because they've always done it that way." "Why don't they look for eggs in Sicily?" "Because they've never done it that way."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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The lord answered, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a she-goat, three years old. A ram three years old, a turtle dove and a young pigeon."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person is actually a malicious lunatic."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."

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7/24/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• about 5 years ago

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"And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world again."

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7/24/2020