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    Sam Harris
    “The intention to do one thing and not another does not originate in consciousness—rather, it appears in consciousness, as does any thought or impulse that might oppose it.”
    ― Sam Harris, Free Will
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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  • #3
    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
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  • #5
    Ricky Gervais
    “I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: atheism, humor
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    Ricky Gervais
    “You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: a-holiday-message, atheism, be-nice, hell, why-i-m-an-atheist
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    Ricky Gervais
    “The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: advice
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  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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  • #15
    Ricky Gervais
    “Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.
    The same applies when you are stupid.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: stupidity
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: atheism, bible, organized-religion, religion
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  • #17
    Ricky Gervais
    “It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: atheism, die, life, live, purpose, religion
    117 likes

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  • #18
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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  • #19
    Ricky Gervais
    “Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
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  • #19
    Christopher Hitchens
    “The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality
    tags: prayer
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    Ricky Gervais
    “A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: atheism, christianity, comedy, humor, humour, rationality, religion, scepticism, skepticisim
    116 likes

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  • #21
    Ricky Gervais
    “My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
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    Ricky Gervais
    “As an atheist, I see nothing “wrong” in believing in a God. I don’t think there is a God, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that’s fine with me. It’s when belief starts infringing on other people’s rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a God. I would just rather you didn’t kill people who believe in a different God, say. Or stone someone to death because your rulebook says their sexuality is immoral. It’s strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens, would also want to judge and punish people for what they are.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
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    Sam Harris
    “If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe it to yourself to read some other scriptures. Once again, we need look no further than the Jains: Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: 'Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.' Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept. Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a theologically defensible reading of the Bible.”
    ― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
    tags: commandments, jainism, mahavira, morality, scripture, ten-commandments
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  • #23
    Philip Larkin
    “I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.”
    ― Philip Larkin
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  • #24
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    “By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forbidden, we Muslims supressed the freedom to think for ourselves and to act as we chose. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mind-set of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves.”
    ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel
    tags: islam, politics
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  • #26
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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  • #26
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Love without sacrifice is like theft”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: compromise, love, manipulation, marriage, marriage-advice, narcissism, narcissists, passive-aggressive, passive-aggressiveness, real-love, relationships, sacrifice, true-love
    427 likes

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    Sam Harris
    “I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.”
    ― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
    tags: faith, skepticism
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Sam Harris
    “Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.”
    ― Sam Harris
    tags: offensive, provocative, religion, worry
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  • #30
    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    ― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne
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  • #30
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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  • #31
    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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  • #31
    Yuval Noah Harari
    “How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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  • #32
    Yuval Noah Harari
    “Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
    tags: science
    363 likes



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