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#1

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life

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#2

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

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#6

“I don't know what it is about "magic happens"-stickers on cars but every time I see one I wanna get out my permanent marker and sneak over and write underneath it "so does cot death".”
― Tim Minchin

tags: black-humor, grumpiness, humor, relativism, sarcasm, spirituality

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#6

“We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.”
― Mike Patton

tags: attitude, complacency, contentment, disposition, happiness

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#6

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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#7

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

tags: creativity, failure, original

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#11

“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
― Jeremy Bentham (An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Philosophical Classics), The Principles of Morals and Legislation

tags: animal-rights, moral, vegetarian

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#12

“Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: education, inspiration, inspirational, learning

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#13

“It's spider season. Every year, right about now, thousands of the godless eight-legged bastards emerge from the bowels of hell (or the garden, whichever's nearest) with the sole intention of tormenting humankind.”
― Charlie Brooker

tags: arachnophobia, dread, fear, funny, humor, humour, spiders, torment

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#14

“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
― Neil DeGrasse Tyson

tags: energy, life, spirituality

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#15

“Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.”
― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

tags: bourgeois, classism, social-criticism

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#15

“In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: humor, jerks, science

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#16

“In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.”
― Neil Degrasse Tyson

tags: dark-humor, death, doomsday, end-of-the-world, future, humor

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#16

“Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

tags: death, poetry

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#17

“It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's fun and games you can't see anymore.”
― James Hetfield

tags: dark-humor, funny, humor

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#17

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

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#18

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: inspirational, values

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#19

“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

tags: attitude, free-will, freedom, self-determination

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#19

“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: attitude, empowerment, inspirational, life, self-determination, strength

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#20

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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#21

“We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

tags: animal-liberation, animal-rights, animals, vegan

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#22

“Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making.”
― Sam Harris

tags: free-will, self-awareness, self-determination

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#23

“They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.”
― Eddie Izzard

tags: humor

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#24

“When you get to a certain age you find that other people’s opinions don’t really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life.”
― Noel Gallagher

tags: attitude, getting-older, growing-older, life, life-lessons, perspective

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#25

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: funny

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#26

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#27

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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#28

“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: animal-cruelty, diet, ethical, ethics, food, slaughterhouse, vegan, veganism, vegetarian, vegetarianism

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#29

“People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know about it. Yet those who, by their purchases, require animals to be killed do not deserve to be shielded from this or any other aspect of the production of the meat they buy.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

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#30

“Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.”
― Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts

tags: perspective, renewal

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