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#1

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion

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“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

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#3

“We are suspended in language.”
― Niels Bohr

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#4

“Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: crazy, science, theory

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#5

“In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, as far as possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.”
― Niels Bohr, Atomic Physics And Human Knowledge

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#6

“Using the word much as it is used in atomic physics to characterize the relationship between experience obtained by different experimental arrangements and visualized only by mutually exclusive ideas, we may truly say that different human cultures are complimentary to each other ... each such culture represents a harmonious balance of traditional conventions by means of which latent potentialities of human life unfold themselves in a way which reveals to us new aspects of its unlimited richness and variety.”
― Niels Bohr, The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, Vol. 2: Essays 1932-1957 Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge

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#7

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: imagination

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#8

“Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him”
― Jeremy Aldana

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#9

“In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.”
― John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

tags: atoms, discovery, life, particles, quantum-mechanics, quantum-physics, science, understanding-the-world

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#10

“To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.”
― Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams

tags: achievement, change, change-your-life, genius, higher-self, hugh-everett, life-philosophy, life-transformation, many-worlds, many-worlds-interpretation, parallel-universes, purpose, quantum-jumping, quantum-mechanics, quantum-physics, self-concept, self-esteem, soul, spirit, subconscious, subconscious-mind, subconscious-mind-power, wave-function

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#11

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#12

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
― Mark Twain

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#13

“I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: humor, inspirational, obvious, stupid

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#14

“My request today is simple. Today. Tomorrow. Next week. Find somebody, anybody, that’s different than you. Somebody that has made you feel ill-will or even hateful. Somebody whose life decisions have made you uncomfortable. Somebody who practices a different religion than you do. Somebody who has been lost to addiction. Somebody with a criminal past. Somebody who dresses “below” you. Somebody with disabilities. Somebody who lives an alternative lifestyle. Somebody without a home.

Somebody that you, until now, would always avoid, always look down on, and always be disgusted by.

Reach your arm out and put it around them.

And then, tell them they’re all right. Tell them they have a friend. Tell them you love them.

If you or I wanna make a change in this world, that’s where we’re gonna be able to do it. That’s where we’ll start.

Every. Single. Time.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

tags: bigotry, charity, christianity, happiness, hate, hatred, homosexuality, judgment, judgmental-people, kindness, love

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#15

“I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.”
― Jonah Goldberg

tags: 2011, barack-obama, bigotry, liberalism, politics, presidency-of-barack-obama, race, race-card, racism, twitter, united-states

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#16

“There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

tags: cynicism, dire

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#17

“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

tags: idiots, life-humor

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#18

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: education, schooling, university

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#19

“Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.

In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.”
― Noam Chomsky

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#20

“If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

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#21

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
― David Allen

tags: productivity

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#22

“Create. Don't Compete.”
― W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

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#23

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

tags: depression, pain, trauma

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#24

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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#25

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: truth, writing, writing-advice

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#26

“All things truly wicked start from innocence.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: ignorance, innocence, wickedness

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#27

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: patriotism, war

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#28

“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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