1. Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
    — Benjamin Disraeli
     
  2. ‘I will take the Ring,’ [Frodo] said, ‘though I do not know the way.’
    — J.R.R Tolkien, The Council of Elrond, Lord of the Rings
     
  3. What, in life, does not deserve celebrating?
    — Ozymandias, The Watchmen
     
  4. Tucker: (Over Church’s radio, fighting with Caboose) I’m not yelling. I’m just telling you to let me finish talking to Church! No! I’ll tell him you said “hi” later. No, you can’t talk to him! How could you possibly talk to him on my headset?

    Church: [Radio clicks] Oh my God… I can’t believe I actually died for this war.

    — Red vs Blue, Episode 14 “Roomier Than It Looks”
     
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    C.J.: Every time we come up on a holiday, you guys check out like seniors who are done with finals.

    Toby: We are writing a very important Thanksgiving proclamation.

    Sam: And possibly a new action-adventure series.

    Toby: Nobody here has checked out…

    [Josh enters]
    Josh: Hey, I was just flipping a nickel in my office. Sixteen times in a row, it came out tails.

    — Shibboleth, The West Wing
     
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    They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

    They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

    Benjamin Franklin

     
  7. Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. 
Bertolt Brecht

    Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. 

    Bertolt Brecht

     
  8. To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.
    — Khalil Gibran
     
  9. Le sort fait les parents, la choix fait les amis.
    — 

    Jacques Delille in Malheur at Pitié 

     
  10. CJ: There’s no website supporting it?

    Toby: And you gotta ask yourself, if no one on the Internet wants a piece of this, just how far from the pack have you strayed?

    — Evidence of Things Not Seen, The West Wing
     
  11. Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
    — Ambrose Bierce
     
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything. 
Malcolm X

    If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything. 

    Malcolm X

     
  13. Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
    — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
     
  14. Norrington: No additional shot nor powder, a compass that doesn’t point north… [inspects Jack’s sword] and I half expected it to be made of wood. You are, without doubt, the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of.

    Jack Sparrow: But you have heard of me.

    — Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
     
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    Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
Charles Caleb Colton

    Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.

    Charles Caleb Colton