muscle cars - `70+, guns & bullets, English language, computers, music, books, construction, engineering

Heavy Metal, Blues, Jazz, Rock - `60 - `80

Mad Max, Waterworld, Fifth Element

Too many. German Gesse, Isaac Asimov, Братья Стругацкие, William Golding, Harry Harrison

"If you want something done - do yourself"

"To do is to be.
— Nietzsche"

"Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
— Mark Twain"

So so is good, very good, very excellent good:
and yet it is not; it is but so so.
— William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"

Salutary: Глупость Шредингера.
Человек одновременно и глуп и умён, пока его о чём–нибудь не спросишь.

Emile Zola: “If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way"

"We judge ourselves by our intentions, and others by their actions."

"It's all shits and giggles til someone giggles and shits." porthoscrx

Противоположность любви - не отвращение. И даже не равнодушие. А ложь.
Соответственно, антитеза ненависти - правда. Довлатов

CantUseApostrophes:
We're all one brain away from being anything, really.

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” - John Adams