Top 200 A.D. Aliwat Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Technology cannot be trusted!”

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152. “There’s a certain quiet dignity to it, the chivalrous gesture by the dumpee.”

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153. “Since humans are social animals, you’re basically only as good as your reputation.”

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154. “Every man loves it when a woman tells him ‘no.’ This is because hearing ‘no’ releases stress hormones and men enjoy being stressed out. It makes them feel more important when they’re stressed, like they matter more. Deep down all men know they are terrible and disgusting and for the most part worthless. They hate themselves, and so they like to be told ’no.”

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155. “The poor Indians that sold the isle of Manhattan for twenty-four bucks are the only real native New Yorkers.”

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156. “Connection is in the mind.”

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157. “The internet is nothing but a jumble of nonsense, an atrocious mixed metaphor. It’s not meant to be understood. First and foremost, it’s a web that you surf. What the hell does that even mean? It not only defies sense but the very laws of physics! And now, apparently, it also contains a cloud. And this is something that’s supposed to be secure? That which looks solid but in fact is not, something literally as thin as air? Perfect!”

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158. “Daughters don’t want their daddies to be foxes, they want them to be lions. No Poseidons. Only Zeuses.”

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159. “Before me all things crumble.”

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160. “You can’t spell American without “I can.”

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161. “The week leading into spring marks the start of the hunt.”

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162. “The internet is like everything that came before it, but so much more. More powerful than the greatest words ever written or spoken in any language, more powerful than any image or symbol ever seen, more powerful than hope or fear, more powerful than religion, faith itself, the totality of the human spirit. The invisible infinite that rules over our lives whether we want it to or not. But really, who doesn’t? Everyone wants a master, everyone needs some version of God.”

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163. “Everybody that breaks up has a little tally of their victories which they count after the relationship to see how they did; cheating gives you a million tallies and more or less makes the entire relationship a lie.”

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164. “Higher education is kind of a racket.”

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165. “A bigot is a bigot by any name, whether sociology likes it or not.”

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166. “When he’s staring into a screen, he’s staring into the abyss. That void of his own making. Of course the abyss would stare back at you.”

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167. “New York is sweltering in the summertime.”

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168. “The relationship between madness and genius has been commented on since Aristotle.”

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169. “While it’s true the city’s gotten a lot safer, you still gotta watch out for the wackadoos. You always will.”

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170. “Investment banking is my true calling, so I’m comfortable making sacrifices. I’ve basically given my life to it these past few years. It’s sort of like joining the Army, except instead of going off and losing a leg in some faraway desert to make some defense contractor or oil guy rich, I get to sell things like collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps to idiots and make myself rich.”

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171. “The truth you know has all been a lie.”

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172. “A junior high sports bus was, in the same vein as some fancier modes of passenger transport – limousines, private jets, coaches, whatever – a place where the important people, the king and queen, sat in the back.”

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173. “Take the moment, it’s yours.”

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174. “Girls know the value of a good secret.”

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175. “It wouldn’t be so bad, to actually be living; it would be pretty nice.”

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176. “She seemed to speak to herself more than him. But this is the strength of any good mystic.”

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177. “In Buddhism, we don’t believe in the soul. Only karma, deeds. The soul is more of a Western thing. The individual.”

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178. “This isn’t real. It would be too much.”

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179. “Evil travels – like all energy, it transfers between people and objects; it moves, gets stored, moves again. But where did it originate? When Eve ate the apple? Or before that, with Satan, that fallen seraph who took the form of a snake and whispered with slithering tongue into her ear? Did she birth it or was it thrust upon us by some insufflating malefic serpent? Is it man-made or a supernatural force?”

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180. “Some models are actually very weird-looking.”

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181. “Letters form words, lines lengthen, paragraphs grow.”

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182. “Feet in general are weird.”

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183. “Clarity trumps context.”

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184. “From below, clouds lie. And if you understand them, if you understand the lies, then you can harness their power.”

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185. “Doing reality TV would have made me more famous than rich, and that would have been awful.”

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186. “What the hell has he been wasting his time doing? Indulging his insanity, that’s what.”

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187. “Words are kinda dumb when you can use pictures.”

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188. “Writing well with children in the house is damn near impossible.”

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189. “Nobody will write anything of real value from here on out. Journalism – among the most basic forms of storytelling, the mere relaying of information – doesn’t even stand a chance, has been reduced to those so-called ‘listicles’ or has reverted to sensationalism. Even The Times is riddled with silly teenage-speak and acronyms now, so forget actual literature.”

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190. “There really is nothing like firsthand knowledge if it’s mine.”

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191. “I know my kids will be incredible, just not as great as me.”

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192. “He cannot trust himself. If he is an island, he is a volcanic one. Alone in a troubled sea.”

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193. “There can be great joy before the night.”

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194. “The thing about truth is that it’s not the same as fact. They’re synonyms but shouldn’t be, Haruka’s realized. Facts just are. Everything adds up, check out. Truth requires faith. It’s personal. It can change. Like with love. One day someone knows they love you – they feel it, they know it’s there – then the next day they don’t. They felt it then they didn’t. It happens. Most people trust truth more than they do facts. This is because people are stupid.”

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195. “Texts should be blue, not green.”

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196. “If it hasn’t come by now, it won’t.”

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197. “At least at parties everybody knows somebody, there’s a semblance of vetting and community, friendship.”

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198. “Really, who doesn’t like Mexican, though?”

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199. “What sounds so terrible from a dog or small child is just wonderful coming from a grown man.”

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200. “Only a fool would deny me.”

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