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#1

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: science

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#2

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

tags: adventure, death, life

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#3

“If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.”
― Joe Rogan

tags: evolution, live, universe

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#4

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
― Voltaire

tags: enmity, humor, prayers, religion, ridicule, satire, social-justice, social-life

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“Here is my final point...About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography...What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, or take into my body as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? And for those who are having a little moral dilemma in your head about how to answer that question, I'll answer it for you. NONE of your fucking business. Take that to the bank, cash it, and go fucking on a vacation out of my life.”
― Bill Hicks

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#6

“You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.”
― Tim Minchin

tags: alternative-medicine, humor, pseudoscience, quackery, scepticism

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#7

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

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#8

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#9

“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

tags: crime, double-standards, hypocrisy, politics, power, war-crimes

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#10

“Science adjusts its views based on what's observed
Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.”
― Tim Minchin

tags: faith, god, religion, science

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#11

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war

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#12

“I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.”
― Bill Hicks

tags: humour, misanthropy

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#13

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

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#14

“Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?”
― Doug Wright, Quills

tags: atheism, god, religion

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#15

“Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock 'n' roll, or a movie can be rock 'n' roll. It's a way of living your life.”
― Lester Bangs

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#16

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
― George Carlin

tags: cynicism, disillusionment, idealism

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#17

“If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”
― H. L. Mencken

tags: death, epitaph

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#18

“When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with science.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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#19

“The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.”
― Alexander Kotov, The Soviet School of Chess

tags: tried-and-true-tropes

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#20

“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The Death-Bed Edition

tags: animals

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#21

“The first time you meet an angel you get a horrible beating”
― Terry A. Davis

tags: life-lessons-quotes, love-quotes

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#22

“An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity, a physicist tries to make it simple, for an idiot anything the more complicated it is the more he will admire it, if you make something so clusterfucked he can't understand it he's gonna think you're a god cause you made it so complicated nobody can understand it. That's how they write journals in Academics, they try to make it so complicated people think you're a genius”
― Terry Davis, Creator of Temple OS

tags: humor, science

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#23

“The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.”
― Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

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#24

“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: beatitudes

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#25

“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare”
― baruch spinoza

tags: baruch-spinoza, wisdom

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#26

“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
― Denis Diderot

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#27

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

tags: philosophy, taoism

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#28

“If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.”
― George W. Bush

tags: dictatorship, dumb

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#29

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address

tags: fear

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#30

“If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”
― Gilles Deleuze

tags: dream, fucked-up, funny, humor, other, philosophy, relationships

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