1. The most important sentence in any article, is the first one. — William Zinsser

2. I was taught at school never to start a sentence without knowing the end of it. — Paul Dirac

3. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw

4. Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. — George Carlin

5. Your intelligence is not based on how much you know, but how much people think you know. — Original; but, like everything, probably based on something else

6. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. — Robert Green Ingersoll

7. If you want an accurate weather forecast, look outside. — Original; but, like everything, probably based on something else

8. The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain: Err, and err, and err again; but less, and less, and less. — Piet Hien

9. Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he’s supposed to be. ― Duncan Trussell

10. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ― Benjamin Franklin

11. The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes. ― Aldous Huxley

12. This is your life and its ending one moment at a time. ― Chuck Palahniuk

13. Those with knowledge that act with ignorance are no better than the ignorant ― Original; but, like everything, probably based on something else

Quotes from Mark Twain

1. Do your duty today, and repent tomorrow.

2. Travel is fatal to prejudice.

3. Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

4. How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again.

Quotes from Matt Caig: The Humans

Evil is more powerful and more plentiful than good. We are more sensitive to negative than to positive things. On the street, scary faces stand out more than smiling ones. We remember bad behavior longer than good—except, of course, when it comes to ourselves.

A human life is on average eighty Earth years or around thirty thousand Earth days. Which means they are born, they make some friends, eat a few meals, they get married [or don't], have a child or two, or not, drink a few thousand glasses of wine, have [sex] a few times, discover a lump somewhere, feel a bit of regret, wonder where all the time went, know they should have done it differently, realize they would have done it the same, and then they die.

Humans were always doing something they didn't like doing. In fact, to my best estimate, at any one time only 0.3% of humans were actively doing something they liked doing, and even when they did so, they felt an intense guilt about it and were fervently promising themselves they'd be back doing something horrendously unpleasant very shortly.

New technology [...] just means something you will laugh at in 5 years. Value the stuff you won't laugh at in 5 years like love, a good poem, a song, or the sky.

The things you don't need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.