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The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

People are more violently opposed to fur than to leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

A man chooses, a slave obeys.

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don't do that.

The aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. ... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim ... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

There are several things that are wrong with Hostel. The first is that it exists at all.

We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need to impress people we don’t care about.

Simplify to amplify.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.