If you are surprised by anything, question your underlying model, for it has led you to be surprised by the true state of affairs. Since the beginning, not one unusual thing has ever happened. Paraphrased from Eliezer Yudkowsky

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher regard those who think the same as him

If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it. Mark Twain

Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it we will only lose tomorrow. Bill Clinton

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument. Lebanese proverb

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Louis Hector Berlioz

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei