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"source": "The Catcher in the Rye",
"id": 84
},
{
"text": "You see, the rays from the star pass so near the sun that they get bent on the way to us.",
"source": "Teach the Short Words First",
"id": 85
},
{
"text": "No one really knows why they're alive until they know what they'd die for.",
"source": "Modern Warfare",
@ -904,11 +899,6 @@
"source": "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid",
"id": 181
},
{
"text": "But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in peril and broken for ever do they pass into song.",
"source": "The Silmarillion",
"id": 182
},
{
"text": "The green eyes, you're the one that I wanted to find and anyone who tried to deny you, must be out of their mind.",
"source": "Green Eyes",
@ -2484,11 +2474,6 @@
"source": "The Lord of The Rings",
"id": 497
},
{
"text": "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count: It's the life in your years.",
"source": "Abraham Lincoln Quote",
"id": 498
},
{
"text": "It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.",
"source": "The Lord of The Rings",
@ -3769,11 +3754,6 @@
"source": "Code Geass",
"id": 754
},
{
"text": "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.",
"source": "The Catcher in the Rye",
"id": 755
},
{
"text": "If one must drink, then let one drink thrice a month, for more is bad. If one gets drunk twice a month, it is better; if one gets drunk once a month, that is better still; and if one doesn't drink at all, that is the best of all.",
"source": "Compendium of Chronicles",
@ -3834,11 +3814,6 @@
"source": "Move",
"id": 767
},
{
"text": "I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.",
"source": "Great Expectations",
"id": 768
},
{
"text": "Well, the real reason that you've been sent over here is because they wanted you to be evaluated... to determine whether or not you are mentally ill. This is the real reason. Why do you think they might think that?",
"source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest",
@ -4594,11 +4569,6 @@
"source": "Every Breath You Take",
"id": 919
},
{
"text": "It's a story of the goddess, and the boy she loves. A love story. Her mother does not approve of him, so she casts a wide river in the sky to separate them forever. But once a year, all the birds in the sky feel sad for them, and they form a bridge so the two of them may be together for a single night.",
"source": "The Karate Kid",
"id": 920
},
{
"text": "The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.",
"source": "The Fault in Our Stars",
@ -4914,11 +4884,6 @@
"source": "Initiation",
"id": 983
},
{
"text": "The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.",
"source": "The Fellowship of the Ring",
"id": 984
},
{
"text": "I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it.",
"source": "The Shawshank Redemption",
@ -5249,11 +5214,6 @@
"source": "The 4-Hour Workweek",
"id": 1050
},
{
"text": "Let's go in the garden. You'll see something waiting, right there where you left it, laying upside down. When you finally find it you'll see how it's faded. The underside is lighter when you turn it around.",
"source": "Everything Stays",
"id": 1051
},
{
"text": "No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better. I learned this lesson well on New Year's Eve, 2001.",
"source": "The Last Lecture",
@ -5314,11 +5274,6 @@
"source": "In Search of Lost Time",
"id": 1063
},
{
"text": "Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.",
"source": "Something Wicked This Way Comes",
"id": 1064
},
{
"text": "I read this thing the other day about how when you hear that ding on your inbox you get like a dopamine rush in your brain. It's like we're being chemically rewarded for allowing ourselves to be brainwashed. How evil is that?",
"source": "Boyhood",
@ -5759,11 +5714,6 @@
"source": "Perfect Childhood",
"id": 1152
},
{
"text": "I would've told her that Davis and I never talked much, or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter, because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe more intimate than eye contact anyway. Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.",
"source": "Turtles All the Way Down",
"id": 1153
},
{
"text": "I can fly like an eagle and strike like a hawk.",
"source": "Initial D: Fifth Stage",
@ -5844,11 +5794,6 @@
"source": "They Can't Take That Away from Me",
"id": 1169
},
{
"text": "A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.",
"source": "The Dark Knight Rises",
"id": 1170
},
{
"text": "We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day begs the night for mercy love. The sun so bright it leaves no shadows, only scars, carved into stone on the face of earth. The moon is up and over One Tree Hill we see the sun go down in your eyes.",
"source": "One Tree Hill",
@ -6299,11 +6244,6 @@
"source": "Twin Peaks",
"id": 1260
},
{
"text": "Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered. He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark - for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.",
"source": "Animal Farm",
"id": 1261
},
{
"text": "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.",
"source": "The Call of Cthulhu",
@ -6374,11 +6314,6 @@
"source": "The Witch of Portobello",
"id": 1275
},
{
"text": "I have waited lifetimes to find you. Now that you're here I can remind you of the things I've been dreaming of times two.",
"source": "Star Ready",
"id": 1276
},
{
"text": "How about tellers? You take tellers. They never tell you anything. They always ask questions. And interest, there's nothing interesting about it at all. It's boring. Oh and then the trust department, they got all the pens chained down to the tables. What kind of trust is that?",
"source": "Cheers",
@ -6784,11 +6719,6 @@
"source": "The Fellowship of the Ring",
"id": 1357
},
{
"text": "You found something else. In that cell you found something that mattered more to you than life. It was when they threatened to kill you unless you gave them what they wanted... you told them you'd rather die. You faced your death, Evey. You were calm. You were still.",
"source": "V for Vendetta",
"id": 1358
},
{
"text": "Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.",
"source": "Oathbringer",
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"source": "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3",
"id": 1430
},
{
"text": "Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.",
"source": "The Imitation Game",
"id": 1431
},
{
"text": "Hey you... did you ever realize what you'd become, and did you see that it wasn't only me you were running from? Did you know all the time but it never bothered you anyway, leading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes?",
"source": "Poles Apart",
@ -7539,11 +7464,6 @@
"source": "REAL Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book",
"id": 1508
},
{
"text": "As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.",
"source": "Of Mice and Men",
"id": 1509
},
{
"text": "Look, you can't stop the years from passing by. There comes a time when changes have to be made. Someone younger and stronger comes along to fill your shoes and a person has to gracefully step aside. Well, I'm not willing to do that. The way I figure, I'm worth more on restricted duty than all of you put together on full time. Good night, gentlemen.",
"source": "Barney Miller",
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"source": "Shadows of Tomorrow",
"id": 1561
},
{
"text": "Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy, all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.",
"source": "Clockwork Angel",
"id": 1562
},
{
"text": "Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes - they call me on and on across the universe. Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box - they tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.",
"source": "Across the Universe",
@ -7854,11 +7769,6 @@
"source": "The Analects",
"id": 1571
},
{
"text": "The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.",
"source": "To Kill a Mockingbird",
"id": 1572
},
{
"text": "Sometimes, when you meet a new operative, it's a good idea to open with an aggressive move. You learn about people when you make them play defense: their reflexes, weaknesses, how they handle themselves under pressure. And even if they are able to counter, it never hurts to know how far they're willing to go.",
"source": "Burn Notice",
@ -8924,11 +8834,6 @@
"source": "Aladdin",
"id": 1785
},
{
"text": "I still want to smack him. Or remind him that the last transfer we had from Abnegation, who is sitting right next to him, managed to knock out some of his teeth, so who knows what this next one will do.",
"source": "Four: A Divergent Collection",
"id": 1786
},
{
"text": "I have often walked down this street before, but the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before. All at once am I several stories high knowing I'm on the street where you live.",
"source": "My Fair Lady",
@ -9739,11 +9644,6 @@
"source": "She",
"id": 1948
},
{
"text": "The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points; and his forces being thus distributed in many directions, the numbers we shall have to face at any given point will be proportionately few.",
"source": "The Art of War",
"id": 1949
},
{
"text": "I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in this world. I got laid off down at the lumber yard, our love went bad, times got hard. Now I work down at the carwash, where all it ever does is rain. Don't you feel like you're a rider on a downbound train.",
"source": "Downbound Train",
@ -9864,11 +9764,6 @@
"source": "Travel and Tolerance",
"id": 1973
},
{
"text": "I mean that tonight you've made me ashamed of every concept I ever had of superior or inferior beings. But I thank you for that shame, because now I know that we are each of us a separate human being, Brandon, with the right to live and work and think as individuals, but with an obligation to the society we live in.",
"source": "Rope",
"id": 1974
},
{
"text": "Well if you think I'm that type of girl, you've got another thing coming, mister. 'Cause I don't do one-night stands, I don't date musicians, and I don't roll over just because you bought in this game. Fair warning - I'll be resisting your every move and enjoying your every mistake. I trust it won't be the first time you made mistakes with the opposite sex.",
"source": "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties",
@ -9924,11 +9819,6 @@
"source": "The Most Astounding Fact",
"id": 1985
},
{
"text": "We live in an age when people do more writing than they have at any other time in history. Not only have computers made it easier to produce clean texts, but they've also allowed average writers to create documents that twenty years ago would have required professional designers.",
"source": "Quick Access Reference for Writers",
"id": 1986
},
{
"text": "You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night.",
"source": "Fahrenheit 451",
@ -10979,11 +10869,6 @@
"source": "The Righteous Mind",
"id": 2196
},
{
"text": "It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.",
"source": "Invictus",
"id": 2197
},
{
"text": "I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.",
"source": "Wuthering Heights",
@ -11799,11 +11684,6 @@
"source": "La La Land",
"id": 2360
},
{
"text": "There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror?",
"source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix",
"id": 2361
},
{
"text": "It must have been love, but it's over now. It must have been good, but I lost it somehow.",
"source": "It Must Have Been Love",
@ -12534,11 +12414,6 @@
"source": "Anne of Green Gables",
"id": 2507
},
{
"text": "I'm Rick Harrison, and this is my pawn shop. I work here with my old man and my son, Big Hoss. Everything in here has a story and a price. One thing I've learned after 21 years - you never know what is gonna come through that door.",
"source": "Pawn Stars: Season 1",
"id": 2508
},
{
"text": "I have been told of a certain sea snake which has a very unusual method of attracting its prey. It will lie at the bottom of the ocean as if wounded. Then its enemies will approach, and yet it will lie quite still. And then its enemies will take little bites of it, and yet it remains still.",
"source": "The Gladiator",
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"source": "Assassin's Creed 2",
"id": 2544
},
{
"text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.",
"source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems",
"id": 2545
},
{
"text": "I'm not proud, I was wrong and the truth is hard to take. I felt sure we had enough, but our love went overboard. Lifeboat lies lost at sea, I've been trying to reach your shore. Waves of doubt keep drowning me.",
"source": "Lessons in Love",
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"source": "Suits",
"id": 2559
},
{
"text": "That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.",
"source": "Infinite Jest",
"id": 2560
},
{
"text": "They say, \"Find a purpose in your life and live it.\" But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.",
"source": "And the Mountains Echoed",
@ -12999,11 +12864,6 @@
"source": "New York Minute",
"id": 2600
},
{
"text": "There's nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we're not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.",
"source": "The Fountainhead",
"id": 2601
},
{
"text": "Humans just lead short, boring, insignificant lives, so they make up stories to feel like they're a part of something bigger. They want to blame all the world's problems on some single enemy they can fight, instead of a complex network of interrelated forces beyond anyone's control.",
"source": "Keep Beach City Weird",
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"source": "For Once in My Life",
"id": 2617
},
{
"text": "They say truth is the first casualty of war. But who defines what's true? Truth is just a matter of perspective. The duty of every soldier is to protect the innocent, and sometimes that means preserving the lie of good and evil - that war isn't just natural selection played out on a grand scale. The only truth I found is that the world we live in is a giant tinderbox. All it takes... is someone to light the match.",
"source": "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3",
"id": 2618
},
{
"text": "My love is as a fever, longing still for that which longer nurseth the disease, feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, the uncertain sickly appetite to please.",
"source": "Sonnet 147",
@ -13289,11 +13144,6 @@
"source": "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey",
"id": 2658
},
{
"text": "We all, every one of us, carry a star inside our chests. Light and darkness are always side-by-side. If you show even the slightest fear or tears to the darkness, it will immediately swell and come attacking, and swallow up the light. Serenity, in order to defeat the darkness and dark souls, you must keep the star inside your chest burning brightly at all times. That is your most important charge.",
"source": "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 10",
"id": 2659
},
{
"text": "I will not be distracted by this anymore! It will take more than head games to stop me. You may have invaded my mind and my body... but there's one thing a Saiyan always keeps: his pride!",
"source": "Dragon Ball Z Kai",
@ -13804,11 +13654,6 @@
"source": "The Construction of Social Reality",
"id": 2761
},
{
"text": "Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.",
"source": "Brida",
"id": 2762
},
{
"text": "You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make stuff in this country, build stuff. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.",
"source": "The Wire",
@ -14729,11 +14574,6 @@
"source": "Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim",
"id": 2946
},
{
"text": "Man is omnipotent; nothing is impossible for him. What seemed like unthinkable undertakings yesterday are history today. The conquest of the moon for example: who talks about it anymore? Today we are already on the threshold of conquering our galaxy, and in a not too distant tomorrow, we'll be considering the conquest of the universe, and yet man seems to ignore the fact that on this very planet there are still people living in the stone age and practicing cannibalism.",
"source": "Cannibal Holocaust",
"id": 2947
},
{
"text": "There's a fire starting in my heart reaching a fever pitch, and it's bringing me out the dark. Finally, I can see you crystal clear. Go ahead and sell me out, and I'll lay your ship bare. See how I'll leave with every piece of you. Don't underestimate the things that I will do.",
"source": "Rolling in the Deep",
@ -14994,11 +14834,6 @@
"source": "Grav-mass",
"id": 2999
},
{
"text": "But I'll tell you something: I think you're magicians because you're unhappy. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength. Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.",
"source": "The Magicians",
"id": 3000
},
{
"text": "There are usually three types of people I deal with when selecting a participant. First, there's the very willing participant who came to see me hoping he'd be selected. Second, there's the wise guy who wants to prove he can't be hypnotized. Third, there's the person who simply wants to enjoy the show. It's up to me to select the right candidate.",
"source": "Mindfreak: Secret Revelations",
@ -15209,11 +15044,6 @@
"source": "Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway",
"id": 3042
},
{
"text": "Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this: Brutus had rather be a villager than to repute himself a son of Rome under these hard conditions as this time is like to lay upon us.",
"source": "Julius Caesar",
"id": 3043
},
{
"text": "One can gaze upon something and see wonder in it. Two can gaze together and share that wonder. We are forever emitting sparks of imagination, so let's spark together. In every mind there is a piece of code that operates our creative functions. It forms a conduit called a Cerebrum-bilical that extends to the farthest reaches of imagination... so let's build! Together we can push back the boundaries until they are a mere speck on the stellar horizon.",
"source": "Little Big Planet 3",
@ -15449,11 +15279,6 @@
"source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom",
"id": 3090
},
{
"text": "If you can't focus at all, it's also good to confine yourself somewhere and study! The thrill of studying in a place where you might get caught does wonders for your focus! Oh, and I also recommend studying in a disaster zone. The thrill of studying in a place where you could actually die does wonders for your focus! Oh, and I also recommend studying in the middle of your exams. The thrill of knowing it's too late to get any studying done does wonders for your focus!",
"source": "Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony",
"id": 3091
},
{
"text": "Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.",
"source": "The Iliad",
@ -16784,11 +16609,6 @@
"source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza",
"id": 3357
},
{
"text": "Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up.",
"source": "The Man in the High Castle",
"id": 3358
},
{
"text": "Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whole world blue and stop your tears from stinging. Hear the cavemen singing. Good news they're bringing. Seven seas, swimming them so well. Glad to see my face among them kissing the tortoise shell.",
"source": "Seven Seas",
@ -16889,11 +16709,6 @@
"source": "Can't feel my face",
"id": 3378
},
{
"text": "It's a story of the goddess, and the boy she loves. A love story. Her mother does not approve of him, so she casts a wide river in the sky to separate them forever. But once a year, all the birds in the sky feel sad for them, and they form a bridge so the two of them may be together for a single night.",
"source": "The Karate Kid",
"id": 3379
},
{
"text": "Such places are few and far between, these grand islands of eternity in the soupy, ever changing world of the living. New York had its share of forever-places. The greatest of these stood near Manhattan's southern-most tip: the two gray brothers to the green statue in the bay. The towers had found their heaven. They were a part of Everlost now, held fast, and held forever by the memories of a mourning world, and by the dignity of the souls who got where they were going on that dark September day.",
"source": "Everlost",
@ -17129,11 +16944,6 @@
"source": "The Resistance",
"id": 3426
},
{
"text": "I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.",
"source": "Anna Karenina",
"id": 3427
},
{
"text": "No battle is ever won. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.",
"source": "The Sound and the Fury",
@ -17274,11 +17084,6 @@
"source": "Breaking Bad",
"id": 3455
},
{
"text": "Years ago, I was an angry young man. And I'd pretend that I was a billboard standing tall by the side of the road. I fell in love with a beautiful highway.",
"source": "(Nothing But) Flowers",
"id": 3456
},
{
"text": "A sensitive and honest-minded man, if he's concerned about evil and injustice in the world, will naturally begin his campaign against them by eliminating them at their nearest source: his own person. This task will take his entire life.",
"source": "The Book of Disquiet",
@ -18089,11 +17894,6 @@
"source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)",
"id": 3618
},
{
"text": "The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.",
"source": "The Brothers Karamazov",
"id": 3619
},
{
"text": "How am I supposed to decide this? How can I possibly stay without Mom and Dad? This is too much. I don't even understand how it all works, why I'm here in the state that I'm in or how to get out of it if I wanted to. If I were to say, \"I want to wake up,\" would I wake up right now? I've already tried snapping my heels to find Teddy and tried to beam myself to Hawaii, and that didn't work. This seems a whole lot more complicated.",
"source": "If I Stay",
@ -20449,11 +20249,6 @@
"source": "The Born Identity",
"id": 4090
},
{
"text": "We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day begs the night for mercy love. The sun so bright it leaves no shadows, only scars, carved into stone on the face of earth. The moon is up and over One Tree Hill we see the sun go down in your eyes.",
"source": "One Tree Hill",
"id": 4091
},
{
"text": "There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that edge can be ignored and we can treat the pizza, for thermal purposes, as an infinite plane. The procedure reduces the heat-transfer problem to one dimension represented by a vector normal to the pizza surface.",
"source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza",
@ -20489,11 +20284,6 @@
"source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book",
"id": 4098
},
{
"text": "I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless. Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives. Or should I say, I have.",
"source": "Avengers: Infinity War",
"id": 4099
},
{
"text": "Happiness is not, of course, guaranteed even to those who are affluent, successful, and well loved. But that happiness is not the inevitable outcome of happy circumstances does not mean we can find it by journeying inward to revise our thoughts and feelings. The threats we face are real and can be vanquished only by shaking off self-absorption and taking action in the world. Build up the levees, get food to the hungry, find the cure, strengthen the \"first responders\"! We will not succeed at all these things, certainly not all at once, but - if I may end with my own personal secret of happiness - we can have a good time trying.",
"source": "Bright-Sided",
@ -21904,11 +21694,6 @@
"source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money",
"id": 4381
},
{
"text": "Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.",
"source": "The Catcher in the Rye",
"id": 4382
},
{
"text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.",
"source": "Beautiful Day",
@ -22649,11 +22434,6 @@
"source": "Eclipse",
"id": 4530
},
{
"text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.",
"source": "Galaxy Song",
"id": 4531
},
{
"text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!",
"source": "Heart of Darkness",
@ -23259,11 +23039,6 @@
"source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age",
"id": 4652
},
{
"text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.",
"source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics",
"id": 4653
},
{
"text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.",
"source": "Barney Miller",
@ -23734,11 +23509,6 @@
"source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants",
"id": 4747
},
{
"text": "Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.",
"source": "Infinite Jest",
"id": 4748
},
{
"text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"",
"source": "The Lost Weekend",
@ -24484,11 +24254,6 @@
"source": "Pulp Fiction",
"id": 4897
},
{
"text": "I don't ever want to feel like I did that day. Take me to the place I love, take me all the way.",
"source": "Under The Bridge",
"id": 4898
},
{
"text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.",
"source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn",
@ -24924,11 +24689,6 @@
"source": "Welcome to Night Vale",
"id": 4985
},
{
"text": "He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.",
"source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude",
"id": 4986
},
{
"text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?",
"source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind",
@ -24999,9 +24759,4 @@
"source": "Helplessly Hoping",
"id": 5000
},
{
"text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.",
"source": "Paprika",
"id": 5001
}
]