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I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

The American writer was born on this day in 1809.

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Just because I’m your friend 80 percent of the time doesn’t make me your enemy 20 percent of the time.
-President Reagan

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“Three rings for the Elven kings under the sky, seven for the Dwarf lords in their halls of stone, nine for the mortal men doomed to die, one for the Dark Lord on his dark throne, in the land of Mordor where the shadows lie. One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring the bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.” -LOTR


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“Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.” – Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

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“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.” — Dennis the Peasant, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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“Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn’t have any innocent bystander ."
-Chris Rock

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“Math is not punishment!”
-Finch, Person of Interest

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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. 

Alan Wilson Watts

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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. 

Isaac Asimov

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“In an effort to be more like my fellow Avenger, Tony Stark, I have had an electronic pacemaker placed near my heart to ensure that I’ll be able to lead thee for another 90 years.”

-Stan Lee

 

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“Maybe I’ll make people stand on their tippy-toes just to change it up a little. ‘Stand on your tippy-toes before Zod.’”

-Man Of Steel‘s Michael Shannon



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Happy 90th Birthday To Stan Lee!

You made my childhood come alive with wonder and dreams. You rock!

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Garak: It’s vile

Quark: I know. It’s so bubbly and cloying and happy.

Garak: Just like the Federation.

Quark: But you know what’s really frightening? If you drink enough of it, you start to like it.

Garak: It’s insidious.

Quark: Just like the Federation.

-DS9, "The Way of the Warrior"

 

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Scifi of the Day

Brazil (1985)

Terry Gilliam’s masterpiece of absurdist dystopia, Brazil is about a lowly office worker in a future city riddled by terrorists and ruled by bureaucrats. He just wants to spend his days dreaming about being a ninja who rescues a damsel in distress — until he meets the damsel in real life, discovers she’s a subversive truck driver, and is plunged into a nightmare of love and political repression. Full of the bizarre imagery that made Gilliam famous during his Monty Python animator days, Brazil will warp your mind and break your heart.

 

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Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father! Prepare to die!

-Mandy Patinkin confronts his father’s killer (Waiting For Guffman director Christopher Guest) in "The Princess Bride"

 

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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Released just a few years after the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki shocked the world, this was a rare anti-war movie at a time when the Cold War was quickly dividing the world’s nations. Full of innovative design, an alien who actually speaks an alien tongue instead of English, and a complicated message about geopolitics, The Day the Earth Stood Still was a movie that pushed its audience to think of themselves as humans rather than Americans.

 

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“Five men held you down and took your virginity,” Mary Eunice. “Well, the first one did. The others took your dignity, your self-esteem and, most importantly… your Christmas spirit.”

-AHS

 

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“Let’s make sure history never forgets the name, Enterprise!” -Picard

 

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Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

 

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“I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Guilliver’s Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr. Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Ghandi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.”

-Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

 

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