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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza
    tags: education, free-thought, philosophy
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    Frank Schaeffer
    “The problem with the evangelical homeschool movement was not their desire to educate their children at home, or in private religious schools, but the evangelical impulse to "protect" children from ideas that might lead them to "question" and to keep them cloistered in what amounted to a series of one-family gated communities.”
    ― Frank Schaeffer, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
    tags: controlling-parents, critical-thinking, evangelical, free-thought, homeschool, religious-right
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    Ilyas Kassam
    “A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself.”
    ― Ilyas Kassam
    tags: free-thought, freedom, man, oneness, self
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    Bob Marley
    “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
    None but ourselves can free our minds.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: freedom-of-thought, independent-thought, self-reliance, song-lyrics
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    George Carlin
    “I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, humor, patriotism
    1432 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, independent-thought, skepticism
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    Voltaire
    “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
    ― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Lost time is never found again.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: time, wisdom
    783 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
    tags: critical-thinking, dogma, freedom-of-thought, independent-thought, inspirational, politics, religion
    334 likes

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    James Baldwin
    “It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: education, freedom-of-thought
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    Milan Kundera
    “I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.”
    ― Milan Kundera
    tags: freedom-of-thought, friendship, kundera
    125 likes

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    George Moore
    “Reality can destroy the dream, why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality.”
    ― George Moore
    tags: inspirational
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  • #18
    “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
    ― Atwood H. Townsend
    tags: reading, study, willful-ignorance
    1234 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: cicero, learning, roman, school, study
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    Henry Green
    “The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
    ― Henry Green
    tags: highlight, revision, secrets, storytelling, style, writer, writers
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Nora Roberts
    “Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
    ― Nora Roberts, Vision in White
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    Elle Kennedy
    “I’m comfortable enough with my hetero status to say that if I did play for the other team? I wouldn’t just fuck Garrett Graham, I’d marry him.”
    ― Elle Kennedy, The Mistake
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    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    ― Agatha Christie
    tags: inspirational
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    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
    tags: love
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  • #26
    “Lógico es todo lo que se entiende aunque no sea verdad.”
    ― Rodolfo Benavides, Levantando la cortina
    tags: logic, miscellaneous
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177227 likes

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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
    tags: fear-of-unknown
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
    tags: books, library, literature, reading, words
    770 likes



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