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“People will just share the things that confirm their ideology, and those things will always exist. Our reality isn't about what's real, it's about what we pay attention to.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“People who "don't consider race or gender" sure seem to end up hiring almost all white guys, almost as if they're absolutely considering race and gender.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“If you want to be happy, let go of your wants. If you want to be effective, harness them.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“The solution is, everywhere and always, the decentralization and redistribution of all forms of power.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“Their voice came out of the watch, slow and then all at once, like ketchup.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“For me, it goes without saying that much of the dogma of many religions is harmful. Thinking other people will burn forever because they love the wrong person or worship the wrong god has done a whole lot of bad.
What I wanted was the part where people were asked to get together once a week to talk about how to be a good person and, like, hang out with their neighbors. It's pretty amazing that apparently the only way to get people to do that is to invent an all-seeing, kindhearted sky dad who will be super disappointed/burn you for eternity if you don't show up.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“One of the most powerful traits of your system is how ardently you believe in your individuality while simultaneously operating almost entirely as a collective.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“Call me a pessimist, but I think if bigotry could be solved by access to more information, it would have been solved by now. Hate isn't about lack of understanding: it's about hate.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“I wanted people to understand that we are a trash fire of a species, but also most people are pretty cool.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren. (anonymous twitter joke referenced in the book)”
― Anonymous, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Even on this most terrible days, even when the worst of us are all we can think of, I am proud to be a human.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you're pretending to be.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“I’d heard all this before, but I also knew that this line of argument worked. If you tell people that they’re being attacked for their beliefs, then suddenly they want to defend their beliefs, even if they didn’t really believe them before. It’s pretty amazing, really.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way?”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“We are each individual, but the far greater thing is what we are together, and if that isn't protected and cherished, we are headed to a bad place.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.”
― Diogenes

“What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.”
― Diogenes

“The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.”
― Diogenes

“Behold! I've brought you a man.”
― Diogenes of Sinope