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impr(quotes): add 9 new english quotes (@Aluriak) (monkeytypegame#6935)
Adding Carl Sagan, internet culture, various well-known IT-related citations, and 2 citations from my favorite writer of late. Co-authored-by: Lucas Bourneuf <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Miodec <[email protected]>
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"source": "League of Legends",
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"id": 7683,
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"length": 409
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"text": "The whole idea of what happens when you read a book, I find absolutely stunning. Here’s some product of a tree, little black squiggles on it, you open it up, and inside your head is the voice of someone speaking, who may have been dead 3000 years, and there he is talking directly to you, what a magical thing that is.",
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"source": "Carl Sagan",
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"text": "Mathematics, in an earlier view, is the science of space and quantity; in a later view, it is the science of pattern and deductive structure.",
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"source": "Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh - The mathematical experience (1981)",
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"length": 141,
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"text": "His Holiness the Flying Spaghetti Monster is Eternal, without beginning and without end, and with a whole tangled mess in the middle.",
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"source": "Evangelical Pastafarian church - The Loose Canon, Second Announcement Regarding Canonical Belief",
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"id": 7686
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"text": "We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.",
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"source": "Douglas Adams",
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"length": 177,
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"id": 7687
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"text": "Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.",
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"source": "Carl Sagan",
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"id": 7688
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"text": "“Then how,” Dex said, “how does the idea of maybe being meaningless sit well with you?” Mosscap considered. “Because I know that no matter what, I’m wonderful.”",
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"source": "Becky Chambers — Monk and Robot",
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"length": 160,
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"text": "I can wait for the galaxy outside to get a little kinder.",
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"source": "Becky Chambers — The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet",
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"text": "That’s such an incredibly organic bias, the idea that your squishy physical existence is some sort of pinnacle that all programs aspire to.",
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"source": "Becky Chambers — The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet",
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"length": 139,
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"id": 7691
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"text": "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one error.",
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"source": "Phil Karlton",
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"id": 7692
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