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

This isn't the greatest sentence, this is just a tribute.

"I look both ways when I cross a one way street, because that's how much faith I have in humanity."

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

The chinese poem "The Story of Mr. Shi Eating Lions"

Shíshì shī shì shǐ shì, shì shǐ, shī shì, shì shí shí shī. Shī sì shì shī. Shǐ shì shè sì, shì shī shì, shǐ shī shì shí shī shī, shì shí shí, shǐ shí shìshì. Shǐ shǐ shì shì shì shì, shì shī shì. Shì shì shì shì.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den

"A Florida woman has been accused of entering the penguin enclosure to teach them to tap dance, using a live alligator as her partner."

"Do you think... God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he's created, here on Earth? "

Dr Romero, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, written by Robert Rodriguez.

"This too shall pass"

If something good happens, it's a cautionary warning to stay humble.

If something bad happens, it's a comforting reminder that things will get better.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

"He who fights monsters must see that he doesn't become a monster himself. For when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you."

Friedrich Nietzsche

You have nothing to loose but your chains

"That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse"

Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed."

"Elaine, if I'd a knowed that you'd a wanted to went, I'd a seen that you'd a got to get to go."

“Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out.”

- Lucy Parsons

"When you're here, you're family" (Fast and the Furious)

"Welcome to Costco, I love you"

Despite all our accomplishments, we all own our existence to a 6 inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

I found it somewere on the Internet and can Not forget it.

"Money can't buy happiness, but it's better to cry in a taxi than on a bus." - Marcel Reich-Ranicki (German literary critic)

I changed the last word in the translation to bus for the US readers. It should be tram or streetcar but I assumed bus is more common and widely known.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Tiān gāo, huángdì yuǎn
Heaven is high and the emperor is far away

Is one of my favorite.

Another is the a misattributed quote:

Les hommes ne seront jamais libres tant que le dernier roi ne sera pas étranglé avec les entrailles du dernier prêtre.

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Though the apparent original is good too.

Je ne veux ni donner ni recevoir de lois.
Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre,
Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois.

I seek neither to rule nor to serve.
And its hands would weave the entrails of the priest,
For the lack of a cord with which to strangle kings.

The second line from the US declaration of indpenedce is a banger too:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

John Brown's:

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

Is also really good.

Never half ass two things, instead whole ass one thing.

It has not been written yet. But it will be soon. Look in the obituary sections.

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times...stupid monkey!"

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

*Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"

I think we are at that point again but with “AI”.

"Black Friday Sale! This Thursday only!".

People don’t think it be like it is, but it do

Spoken, not written:-

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

• Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Perhaps the best, most succinct explanation of historical materialism.

Mrs. Higgins’ body was found in the pantry, bludgeoned with a potato ricer and lying atop a fifty-pound sack of Yukon golds, her favorite for making gnocchi, though some people consider them too moist for this purpose.

-Joel Phillips

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I think, therefore I am.

-Descartes

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.