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    Carl Sagan
    “Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: douglass, frederick-douglass, freedom, literacy, reading, slavery
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    Epicurus
    “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
    Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
    Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
    Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: atheism, religion
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, politics
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, children
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    Mark Twain
    “You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-bible
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    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, inspirational
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    James K. Morrow
    “[...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing, and serious writers should therefore confine themselves to their various ethnic heritages and interpersonal relationships.”
    ― James Morrow, Nebula Awards 27: Sfwa's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year
    tags: literature, real-life
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    Heinrich Heine
    “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
    ― Heinrich Heine
    tags: books, censorship
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    Heinrich Heine
    “In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.”
    ― Heinrich Heine
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: adaptation, change, open-mindedness, self-improvement
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

    [From the will of GBS]”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: blood-sacrifice, commemoration, cross, denomination, evolution, monument, religious-convictions, ritual, science, scientific, sermon, service, tenets, torture, views
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: humor, religion
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
    tags: arrogance, ignorance, politicians, politics
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    Richard Lederer
    “There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.”
    ― Richard Lederer, Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language
    tags: christianity, dark-age, history, medieval, middle-ages, religion, scepticism
    111 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”
    ― Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars
    tags: libertarianism
    146 likes



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