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“Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world──the fight for the Liberation of Mankind”
― Nikolai Ostrovsky

“كلنا قد تاب يوما

ثم ألفى نفسه

قد تاب عما تاب”
― مظفر النواب, مظفر النواب: الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة

“Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction).”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson