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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    Chapman Cohen
    “Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is “Worship us or we perish.” A dethroned monarch may retain some of his human dignity while driving a taxi for a living. But a god without his thunderbolt is a poor object.”
    ― Chapman Cohen
    tags: atheism, fragility, gods, petty, reason, science, theism
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    Chapman Cohen
    “ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.”
    ― Chapman Cohen
    tags: atheism, obscurantism
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    Chapman Cohen
    “All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious beliefs deserved more consideration than non-religious beliefs or anti-religious ones.
    I never agree with that foolish statement that I ought to respect the views of others when I believe them to be wrong.”
    ― Chapman Cohen
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    Walter Isaacson
    “Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravity, inertia, acceleration, light beams-which grown-ups find so commonplace. He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”
    ― Walter Isaacson
    tags: childlike-wonder
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    Walter Isaacson
    “The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he [Einstein] said.”
    ― Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe
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    Henri Bergson
    “The Eyes See Only What The Mind Is Prepared To Comprehend.”
    ― Henri Bergson
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    “A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.”
    ― Leonardo DiCaprio
    tags: arts, creativity, idea, inception-the-shooting-script, leonardo-dicaprio, think-big
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    “BIG THINKERS OFTEN DO BIG THINGS. SMALL THINKERS NEVER DO BIG THINGS.”
    ― Karen Blumenthal, Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography
    tags: dream-big, limitless, look-up, passionate, the-sky-is-the-limit, think-big, think-bigger, thinkers
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    Israelmore Ayivor
    “If your thoughts are as tall as the height of your ceiling, you can’t fly above your room.”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, You Can Rise
    tags: big-dreams, ceiling, dream-big, flight, fly, flying, food-for-thought, height, israelmore-ayivor, roof, room, small-dreams, think, think-big, thinking, thought, thoughts, you-can-rise
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    Zakir Malik
    “Think bigger than circle of environed issues,
    Study, be an ideal of dream society;
    Free of disgraceful attachment of values,
    Dream higher than those individualistic goals”
    ― Zakir Malik, The Wail Of The Woods
    tags: community, dream-big, ideal, individuality, society, think-big
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: fanaticism, zealot
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The price of greatness is responsibility.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: inspiration, responsibility
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
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    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    Albert Camus
    “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    José Ortega y Gasset
    “Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”
    ― Jose Ortega y Gasset
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    George Holyoake
    “Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence.”
    ― George Jacob Holyoake
    tags: atheism, compel, deprive, existence, reason, superstition
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    George Holyoake
    “A definition is a map, but it is not the journey.”
    ― George Holyoake, The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws?
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    John Koenig
    “Sonder - n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.”
    ― John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
    tags: everyone-has-a-story
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    “Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.”
    ― Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music
    tags: ancestors, connection, flexibility, music, people
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    Annie Proulx
    “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
    ― Annie Proulx
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    Alfred Lansing
    “No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.”
    ― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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    Jim Al-Khalili
    “... classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the early Islamic scholars as accessible today as they were then.”
    ― Jim Al-Khalili
    tags: arabic, classical-arabic, koran, qur-an, quran
    29 likes



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