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“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

“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”
― Mark Twain

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First realize that you are sick;
then you can move toward health.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
― Anonymous

“There is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night.”
― Voltaire

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

“A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“It's a battle of those who know how to think against those who know how to hate.”
― Arundhati Roy, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.

“রবীন্দ্রনাথের নোবেল পুরস্কার পাওয়ার দরকার ছিলো না, কিন্তু দরকার ছিলো বাঙলা সাহিত্যের। পুরস্কার না পেলে হিন্দুরা বুঝতো না যে রবীন্দ্রনাথ বড়ো কবি; আর মুসলমানেরা রহিম, করিমকে দাবি করতো বাঙলার শ্রেষ্ঠ কবি হিশেবে।”
― Humayun Azad

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi