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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;
    And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
    As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back --
    For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: dogs, show-love-for-dogs
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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: pyramids
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    Bill Maher
    “freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.”
    ― Bill Maher, When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
    tags: citizenship, freedom, government, participation, politics, responsibility
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
    tags: blessings, witches
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    Richard Dawkins
    “I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
    ― Richard Dawkins
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    Richard Dawkins
    “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: bible, christianity, god, organized-religion, religion, yahweh
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Richard Dawkins
    “It is often said, mainly by the 'no-contests', that although there is no positive evidence for the existence of God, nor is there evidence against his existence. So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”
    ― Richard Dawkins
    tags: agnosticism, evidence
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    George Carlin
    “Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: atheism
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    Emmett F. Fields
    “Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.”
    ― Emmett F. Fields
    tags: atheism, misattributed-to-carl-sagan, religion
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: troubles
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    We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty
    “We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.”
    ― Gene Roddenberry
    tags: atheism
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    tags: humor, religion
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    Philip Pullman
    “I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
    tags: mary-malone, morality
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills
    tags: accuracy, certainty, gender, guesses, men, women
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Auch aus Steinen die einem in den Weg gelegt werden, kann man schöne Dinge bauen.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
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    Steve Martin
    “I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”
    ― steve martin
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    Philip Pullman
    “We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, inspirational
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
    tags: humor, life, movies
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
    tags: books, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “And what would humans be without love?"
    RARE, said Death.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: librarians, libraries, space, time
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"
    Mort thought for a moment.
    "No," he said eventually, "what?"
    There was silence.
    Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Mort
    tags: answers, fate, questions
    966 likes



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