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    Salman Rushdie
    “The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible."

    [Defend the right to be offended (openDemocracy, 7 February 2005)]”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: censorship, criticism, freedom-of-opinion, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, immunity, liberty, sacrosanct-ideas
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    Maya Angelou
    “Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.”
    ― Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman
    tags: freedom-of-speech, history, malcom-x, politics, war
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    Salman Rushdie
    “One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: freedom-of-speech
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “How did you go bankrupt?"
    Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never be daunted”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
    tags: bill-gorton
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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    Thomas Wolfe
    “I am, he thought, a part of all that I have touched and that has touched me, which, having for me no existence save that which I gave to it, became other than itself by being mixed with what I then was, and is now still otherwise, having fused with what I now am, which is itself a cumulation of what I have been becoming. Why here? Why there? Why now? Why then?”
    ― Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
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    S.W. Southwick
    “No one can save anyone else from their own beliefs.”
    ― S.W. Southwick, The Untethered
    tags: philosophy, reality, reason, the-untethered
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    Edward O. Wilson
    “People would rather believe than know.”
    ― Edward O. Wilson
    tags: activism, animals, environment, inspirational
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
    THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
    FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
    WAS MUSIC”
    ― kurt vonnegut
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: deities, deity, disguise, divine, divine-self, divinity, divinity-within, fool, god, godlike, godliness, godly, godly-reference, gods, higher-self, man
    103 likes

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    Amit Ray
    “There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.”
    ― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
    tags: cosmic-consciousness, cosmic-love, cosmos, god, inner-voice, power, pure-self, self, self-awareness, self-love, self-love-quotes, self-motivation, self-realization, self-respect, voice
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    “ONE BUT MANY

    One God, many faces.
    One family, many races.
    One truth, many paths.
    One heart, many complexions.
    One light, many reflections.
    One world, many imperfections.
    ONE.
    We are all one,
    But many.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: complexions, divide, earth, faces, family, global-peace, god, heart, humanity, humans, imperfection, light, love, mankind, many, mind, mirrors, one, parts, paths, race, races, refelections, root-races, sum, temples, tribes, truth, truthism, united, unity, universal, universal-love, we-are-one, world
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    Noah Levine
    “Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.”
    ― noah levine
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: buddism, kindness, religion
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