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“Nothing is forever except change.”
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Gautama Buddha
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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
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Socrates
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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
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Albert Einstein
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“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
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Banksy
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“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
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Albert Einstein
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
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George Orwell,
1984
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#7
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
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Frank Herbert,
Dune
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#8
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
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George Orwell,
1984
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#9
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
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Franz Kafka
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#10
“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
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Viktor E. Frankl,
Man's Search for Meaning
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#11
“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
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Yuval Noah Harari,
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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#12
“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
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Gautama Buddha,
Sayings of Buddha
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#13
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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Oscar Wilde
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“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.”
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Yuval Noah Harari,
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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