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In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
― Pericles

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
― Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.”
― Frank Zappa

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”
― Umberto Eco

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”
― George Carlin

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“There is no God and we are his prophets.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”
― Steven Wright

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”
― Groucho Marx

“The Church says: the body is a sin.
Science says: the body is a machine.
Advertising says: The body is a business.
The Body says: I am a fiesta.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Walking Words

“In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Is there anything on earth which would have meaning
and would even change the course of events not only on
earth, but in other worlds?” I asked my teacher.
“There is,” my teacher answered me.
“Well, what is it?” I asked.
“It’s...” began my teacher and suddenly fell silent.
I stood and waited intently for his answer. But he was
silent.
And I stood and was silent.
And he was silent.
And I stood, silent.
And he was silent.
We’re both standing and silent.
Ho-la-la!
We’re both standing and silent.
Ho-le-le!
Yes, yes, we’re both standing and silent!
16-17 July 1937”
― Daniel Charms

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
― Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories