> And I don't need you
> And guess what
> I'm having more fun
-> And now that we’re done
+> And now that we're done
> I'm gonna show you tonight
> I'm alright
> I'm just fine
> I am convinced, from many experiments, I could not study, to any degree of perfection, either mathematics, arithmetic, or algebra, without being a Deist, if not an Atheist.
—John Wesley
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> Selfishness and altruism are positively correlated within individuals, for the obvious reason.
—[@InstanceOfClass](https://twitter.com/InstanceOfClass/status/355050621147152386)
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-> There is only one book: the world book. And all books are volumes of this one book. And all pages are pages of this world book. [...] You’re already skimming. You’re already skipping over. You’re already not reading all the pages of the book.
+> There is only one book: the world book. And all books are volumes of this one book. And all pages are pages of this world book. [...] You’re already skimming. You're already skipping over. You’re already not reading all the pages of the book.
—Khatzumoto, "[All Reading Is Skimming](http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/reading-is-skimming)"
"I still feel bad about being the [worst person at my job](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/06/lower-decks/)."
-"You don’t mean _worst person_. _People_ all have an equal intrinsic moral worth that has nothing to do with their economic role in society. You mean something more like, 'perhaps less skilled than some others at some job tasks'."
+"You don't mean _worst person_. _People_ all have an equal intrinsic moral worth that has nothing to do with their economic role in society. You mean something more like, 'perhaps less skilled than some others at some job tasks'."
-"No, that’s pretty much what I meant by _worst person_."
+"No, that's pretty much what I meant by _worst person_."
—_Modern Compiler Design_ by Dick Grune, Henri E. Bal, Ceriel J. H. Jacobs, and Koen G. Langendoen (2000)
-> If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: “The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.
+> If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: "The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity," I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.
—Antoin Scalia; _Obergefell v. Hodges_ dissent, footnote 22
> PEARL: Oh, Steven. Humans just lead short, boring, insignificant lives, so they make up stories to feel like they're a part of something bigger. They want to blame all the world's problems on some single enemy they can fight, instead of a complex network of interrelated forces beyond anyone's control.
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-> AMETHYST: It’s sad. And funny.
+> AMETHYST: It's sad. And funny.
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> PEARL: Don't feel bad about it, okay?