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“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

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#3

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: classics

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#3

“and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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#4

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

tags: cynicism, disillusionment, idealism

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#5

“Read like a wolf eats.”
― Gary Paulsen

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#7

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: evidence, faith, science, skepticism

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#8

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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#8

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#9

“I know I was born and I know that I'll die...
The in between is mine.
I Am Mine”
― Eddie Vedder

tags: lyrics

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#9

“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, home, homecoming, homelessness, roots

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#10

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: change

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#12

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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#13

“He who laughs most, learns best”
― John Cleese

tags: learning

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#14

“Eppur si muove.”
― Galileo Galilei

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#15

“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men”
― Charles Darwin

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