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So much of the dialog is Deadwood is absolutely brilliant, but one scene really stuck with me.

"Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or fuckin’ beatin’s. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man — and give some back."

Ian McShane deserved an Emmy for his work as Al Swearengen. That slow stare at the end of the scene alway kills me. I know it's supposed to be a drama, but they really go for some laughs.

"you can stick your well-laid plan up your well-laid ass"

Been almost 30 years, what a dumb quote to come to mind so often. I never say it, haven't seen Die Hard 3 since the '90s, no idea why it's stuck so hard

“What I’m about to tell you is top secret, a conspiracy bigger than all of us. There’s a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I’m talking about the guys no one knows about, the guys that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission.”

• Elliot

Here are a few off the top of my head (though I looked up the original kanji for some of the Japanese ones)...

To enjoy life's immensity, you do not need many things.

• Ryōkan, a Japanese poet

Ain't no shame in holding onto grief, as long as you make room for other things too.

• Bubbles, from the last episode of The Wire

Honor is dead, but I'll see what I can do.

• Kaladin, from The Stormlight Archive Book 2 by Brandon Sanderson

Beware the difference between intelligibility and correctness.

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Success consists of moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

• Winston Churchill

猿も木から落ちる (Saru mo ki kara ochiru)

Even monkeys fall from trees.

• Anonymous, traditional Japanese saying

正勝吾勝 (Makatsu agatsu)

True victory is victory over one's self.

• Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido

„Old habits die hard“

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"Anything that can go wrong will (eventually) go wrong."

• Added the eventually for Murphy’s law because in its original version it kinda implies that everything that can will go wrong right away

"Given enough time, Hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from, and where its going."

For my whole life is a tall order. Probably "what goes around comes around".

This thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it.

"i have d cups grandma, the waitress thinks you have dementia"

“There isn't any shame in being weak, the shame is in staying weak” - black clover

"Better say sorry than ask for permission"

"You never get a second chance to make a first impression"

This one is from my previous boss: “you gotta do what’s good for you, and nobody else”

Taught me to prioritize things that are important to me and not to live for the sake of others

Another was “you can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves”

Taught me that some efforts are futile because unwillingness from others will result in deterioration to the status quo unless they’re willing to participate to move things forward

"Love is the only rational act." -Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie.

Everytime you eat a steak, a hippie's hacky sack falls in the gutter.

-Patton Oswalt

Hanlon's razor is basically my religion at this point. It's just a huge part of how I see and engage with the world.

if you assume you make an ass of u and me

In this world, the only thing we truly own is the body we shape everyday

• Sun Ken Rock manga

"The only thing to abuse is moderation" - A song quoting Sénèque, but I never found the original sentence from Sénèque (apparently he was talking about Sex in it but I think it applies to anything in life)

I think it would be this two personally.

Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you. - Confucius

Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. - V