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I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen. Thank you for reading.

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Now we live in an amazing, amazing world and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots.

Conan (2006)

If you do something and people think you’re stupid, just go for crazy. You get more respect that way because nobody likes stupid people.

Drugs are so fucking good that they’ll ruin your life.

Saying that something is too terrible to joke about is like saying that a disease is too terrible to try to cure it.

Everything that’s difficult you should be able to laugh about.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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