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Hank Green Quote: “A friend of mine once told me that, no matter how much you proofread, the first time you open the final version of your book, you will find a typo on the very first page you look at. Ugh.”

101. “A friend of mine once told me that, no matter how much you proofread, the first time you open the final version of your book, you will find a typo on the very first page you look at. Ugh.”

Hank Green Quote: “I wanted people to understand that we are a trash fire of a species, but also most people are pretty cool.”

102. “I wanted people to understand that we are a trash fire of a species, but also most people are pretty cool.”

Hank Green Quote: “And it turns out, time does eventually pass no matter how anxious you are.”

103. “And it turns out, time does eventually pass no matter how anxious you are.”

Hank Green Quote: “It’s so much easier for people to get excited about disliking something than agreeing to like it.”

104. “It’s so much easier for people to get excited about disliking something than agreeing to like it.”

Hank Green Quote: “It’s so much easier for people to get excited about disliking something than agreeing to like it. The circle jerk of mockery and self-congratulation was so intense I didn’t even notice I was at its center. It was so easy to get people to follow me, and in the end, that’s what I wanted.”

105. “It’s so much easier for people to get excited about disliking something than agreeing to like it. The circle jerk of mockery and self-congratulation was so intense I didn’t even notice I was at its center. It was so easy to get people to follow me, and in the end, that’s what I wanted.”

Hank Green Quote: “Any good story is a mind-altering substance.”

106. “Any good story is a mind-altering substance.”

Hank Green Quote: “You don’t get to know where April and I went. I’ve had enough of that. We’re just here on planet Earth with the rest of the humans. Did we make a couple of not-super-well-thought-out financial decisions? Yeah, but we had to make a comfortable life for ourselves and Paulette. Paulette is our monkey.”

107. “You don’t get to know where April and I went. I’ve had enough of that. We’re just here on planet Earth with the rest of the humans. Did we make a couple of not-super-well-thought-out financial decisions? Yeah, but we had to make a comfortable life for ourselves and Paulette. Paulette is our monkey.”

Hank Green Quote: “I saw myself as a leader of the community, not a member. I had no idea what a messed-up perspective that was at the time.”

108. “I saw myself as a leader of the community, not a member. I had no idea what a messed-up perspective that was at the time.”

Hank Green Quote: “But when you walked out of that building, you created a new history that we have to live in now.”

109. “But when you walked out of that building, you created a new history that we have to live in now.”

Hank Green Quote: “As is often the case, it was the easier choice to make and the more difficult choice to live with.”

110. “As is often the case, it was the easier choice to make and the more difficult choice to live with.”

Hank Green Quote: “Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world.”

111. “Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world.”

Hank Green Quote: “I know that you’re going to have a very complicated lifer in the next weeks and months, and then you won’t have time for much else. But I also know that having someone that you care about and who cares about you might help keep you connected to reality.”

112. “I know that you’re going to have a very complicated lifer in the next weeks and months, and then you won’t have time for much else. But I also know that having someone that you care about and who cares about you might help keep you connected to reality.”

Hank Green Quote: “The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.”

113. “The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.”

Hank Green Quote: “Obviously, this is a profoundly unrelatable frustration, but we all only have our own lives to live inside of.”

114. “Obviously, this is a profoundly unrelatable frustration, but we all only have our own lives to live inside of.”

Hank Green Quote: “At some point that night, I glimpsed my most probable future. That one day, the most interesting and important thing about me would be a thing that I did a long time ago.”

115. “At some point that night, I glimpsed my most probable future. That one day, the most interesting and important thing about me would be a thing that I did a long time ago.”

Hank Green Quote: “Carl just had too much mass – we couldn’t stop falling into his gravity any more than we could jump to the moon.”

116. “Carl just had too much mass – we couldn’t stop falling into his gravity any more than we could jump to the moon.”

Hank Green Quote: “Power only does all its business of empowering when it’s perceived as a difference between the power of those nearby and, even more important, the power one previously had.”

117. “Power only does all its business of empowering when it’s perceived as a difference between the power of those nearby and, even more important, the power one previously had.”

Hank Green Quote: “What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way?”

118. “What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way?”

Hank Green Quote: “It is when you turn your emotions into art. It is BTS and the Sistine Chapel and Rumi’s poetry and Ross Geller on the stairs yelling, ‘Pivot.”

119. “It is when you turn your emotions into art. It is BTS and the Sistine Chapel and Rumi’s poetry and Ross Geller on the stairs yelling, ‘Pivot.”

Hank Green Quote: “It’s weird to talk about these things as if they are fact since they were in a dream, but the fact that everyone experienced it in precisely the same way made it feel concrete. What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way? The Dream, in that sense, was very, very real.”

120. “It’s weird to talk about these things as if they are fact since they were in a dream, but the fact that everyone experienced it in precisely the same way made it feel concrete. What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way? The Dream, in that sense, was very, very real.”

Hank Green Quote: “But what about a Maximum Wage?”

121. “But what about a Maximum Wage?”

Hank Green Quote: “There’s that period in there, generally six to nine hours, in which you just aren’t anymore. Excuse me for having thought about this a lot, but how does it not terrify us that we spend a third of every day in a conscious unconsciousness, living inside a virtual reality created by our own minds but that somehow we don’t control? Like... what?!”

122. “There’s that period in there, generally six to nine hours, in which you just aren’t anymore. Excuse me for having thought about this a lot, but how does it not terrify us that we spend a third of every day in a conscious unconsciousness, living inside a virtual reality created by our own minds but that somehow we don’t control? Like... what?!”

Hank Green Quote: “So here’s a really stupid thing about the world: The trick to looking cool is not caring whether you look cool. So the moment you achieve perfect coolness is simultaneously the moment that you actually, completely don’t care. I didn’t care about the gravitas of that TV show, and the freedom and security and confidence that came with that was a rush. It took me a while to realize that the feeling I was feeling was power.”

123. “So here’s a really stupid thing about the world: The trick to looking cool is not caring whether you look cool. So the moment you achieve perfect coolness is simultaneously the moment that you actually, completely don’t care. I didn’t care about the gravitas of that TV show, and the freedom and security and confidence that came with that was a rush. It took me a while to realize that the feeling I was feeling was power.”

Hank Green Quote: “Somehow she made me feel human, and that is, I’ve learned, one of the best things to be.”

124. “Somehow she made me feel human, and that is, I’ve learned, one of the best things to be.”

Hank Green Quote: “He was one of thousands of people who scraped by filtering reality through their ideology and then yelling really loudly at the internet.”

125. “He was one of thousands of people who scraped by filtering reality through their ideology and then yelling really loudly at the internet.”

Hank Green Quote: “Anyway, we’re left with three possibilities. I have forgotten something very basic about a topic I know a great deal about, and so has everyone else I’ve talked to about this, including people who are smarter and know more than me. Someone has constructed a new material that behaves unlike anything that currently exists, or should be able to exist, and then put it on the sidewalk for everyone to see. Carl is alien. And I don’t mean alien like “weird.” I.”

126. “Anyway, we’re left with three possibilities. I have forgotten something very basic about a topic I know a great deal about, and so has everyone else I’ve talked to about this, including people who are smarter and know more than me. Someone has constructed a new material that behaves unlike anything that currently exists, or should be able to exist, and then put it on the sidewalk for everyone to see. Carl is alien. And I don’t mean alien like “weird.” I.”

Hank Green Quote: “I didn’t feel like there would be excitement or support on the other side of that conversation, so I just kept not having it.”

127. “I didn’t feel like there would be excitement or support on the other side of that conversation, so I just kept not having it.”

Hank Green Quote: “My path forward was the opposite of theirs and theirs was the opposite of mine. It distilled itself down until all that was left was the argument. And maybe, lurking just beneath that, the hatred.”

128. “My path forward was the opposite of theirs and theirs was the opposite of mine. It distilled itself down until all that was left was the argument. And maybe, lurking just beneath that, the hatred.”

Hank Green Quote: “I think part of the point of loving someone is being able to deal with their brokenness.”

129. “I think part of the point of loving someone is being able to deal with their brokenness.”

Hank Green Quote: “Stop thinking about my poop.”

130. “Stop thinking about my poop.”

Hank Green Quote: “It’s so much harder to actually define yourself and work to imagine the best possible future than it is to tear down others’ ideas.”

131. “It’s so much harder to actually define yourself and work to imagine the best possible future than it is to tear down others’ ideas.”

Hank Green Quote: “One of the best things about having money is paying people to do good work.”

132. “One of the best things about having money is paying people to do good work.”

Hank Green Quote: “Where is the president at this Time of Need! Probably playing shuffleboard or having her period!’ It’s not my fault I like shuffleboard so much. I always say, add up all the time every other president has spent golfing and tell me that my shuffleboard habit is bad for America.”

133. “Where is the president at this Time of Need! Probably playing shuffleboard or having her period!’ It’s not my fault I like shuffleboard so much. I always say, add up all the time every other president has spent golfing and tell me that my shuffleboard habit is bad for America.”

Hank Green Quote: “Collections of individuals are beautiful, but they are as common as pelagibacter. Collections of ideas are veins of gold in our universe. They must be cherished and protected.”

134. “Collections of individuals are beautiful, but they are as common as pelagibacter. Collections of ideas are veins of gold in our universe. They must be cherished and protected.”

Hank Green Quote: “I feel like a small dog is eating my eyeballs from the inside!”

135. “I feel like a small dog is eating my eyeballs from the inside!”

Hank Green Quote: “So how do you do it? Not make a baby, balance an equation. I did biology last year.”

136. “So how do you do it? Not make a baby, balance an equation. I did biology last year.”

Hank Green Quote: “I miss that life so much I would end every panda to get it back.”

137. “I miss that life so much I would end every panda to get it back.”

Hank Green Quote: “I also remember defining myself by the people and the things that I hated rather than what I liked, thinking that it was cooler to be jaded than to be careful with other people.”

138. “I also remember defining myself by the people and the things that I hated rather than what I liked, thinking that it was cooler to be jaded than to be careful with other people.”

Hank Green Quote: “I’d heard all this before, but I also knew that this line of argument worked. If you tell people that they’re being attacked for their beliefs, then suddenly they want to defend their beliefs, even if they didn’t really believe them before. It’s pretty amazing, really.”

139. “I’d heard all this before, but I also knew that this line of argument worked. If you tell people that they’re being attacked for their beliefs, then suddenly they want to defend their beliefs, even if they didn’t really believe them before. It’s pretty amazing, really.”

Hank Green Quote: “It’s basically just like every other room full of people you’ve ever been in, except exactly half of it looks extremely fancy and important, and the other half is just concrete and scaffolding.”

140. “It’s basically just like every other room full of people you’ve ever been in, except exactly half of it looks extremely fancy and important, and the other half is just concrete and scaffolding.”

Hank Green Quote: “I hope you don’t feel like you have to represent all black people with me,” I said. “I hope you’re not, like, careful all the time.” “No, April.” And then it was a long time before she continued. “I’m careful with you for different reasons.”

141. “I hope you don’t feel like you have to represent all black people with me,” I said. “I hope you’re not, like, careful all the time.” “No, April.” And then it was a long time before she continued. “I’m careful with you for different reasons.”

Hank Green Quote: “Next time you have a bad day, remember that it is amazing that you are alive at all, much less a member of a self-aware species living at the height of human technological progress.”

142. “Next time you have a bad day, remember that it is amazing that you are alive at all, much less a member of a self-aware species living at the height of human technological progress.”

Hank Green Quote: “What if you want to get across a busy intersection, but you can’t stop? What if you can’t even slow down? Because that’s where you’re at right now. Right now, humanity has to keep accelerating simply to support itself. But from left and right, massive hulks threaten to knock into you. Pandemics, climate change, bigotry, inequality, wars, water scarcity, sea level rise, and some that you do not enough to see yet. You have to dodge them, but you cannot stop, and you cannot slow down.”

143. “What if you want to get across a busy intersection, but you can’t stop? What if you can’t even slow down? Because that’s where you’re at right now. Right now, humanity has to keep accelerating simply to support itself. But from left and right, massive hulks threaten to knock into you. Pandemics, climate change, bigotry, inequality, wars, water scarcity, sea level rise, and some that you do not enough to see yet. You have to dodge them, but you cannot stop, and you cannot slow down.”

Hank Green Quote: “Every black person who spends time with a lot of white people eventually ends up being asked to speak for every black person and I hate that. It’s really stupid. And everyone gets to respond to that idiocy however they want. But my anxiety eventually made me extremely careful about everything I said, because of course I don’t represent capital-B Black People, but if people think I do, then I still feel a responsibility to try to do it well.”

144. “Every black person who spends time with a lot of white people eventually ends up being asked to speak for every black person and I hate that. It’s really stupid. And everyone gets to respond to that idiocy however they want. But my anxiety eventually made me extremely careful about everything I said, because of course I don’t represent capital-B Black People, but if people think I do, then I still feel a responsibility to try to do it well.”

Hank Green Quote: “I was really, deeply, honestly, and truly infatuated with having people pay attention to me.”

145. “I was really, deeply, honestly, and truly infatuated with having people pay attention to me.”

Hank Green Quote: “The clattering of humanity mixed in all its randomness was as relaxing to me as crickets chirping beside a rushing brook.”

146. “The clattering of humanity mixed in all its randomness was as relaxing to me as crickets chirping beside a rushing brook.”

Hank Green Quote: “I don’t even know what it would be like to not be attracted to a person because of their gender.”

147. “I don’t even know what it would be like to not be attracted to a person because of their gender.”

Hank Green Quote: “The worst thing about these people is that they didn’t usually feel fear themselves; they were just using it to get attention and grow their influence. As long as this tactic worked, they would never stop.”

148. “The worst thing about these people is that they didn’t usually feel fear themselves; they were just using it to get attention and grow their influence. As long as this tactic worked, they would never stop.”

Hank Green Quote: “One of the most powerful traits of your system is how ardently you believe in your individuality while simultaneously operating almost entirely as a collective.”

149. “One of the most powerful traits of your system is how ardently you believe in your individuality while simultaneously operating almost entirely as a collective.”

Hank Green Quote: “One day, an internet company wants to sell books, and then ten years later they’re a threat to nearly every industry on earth.”

150. “One day, an internet company wants to sell books, and then ten years later they’re a threat to nearly every industry on earth.”

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