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    J.D. Salinger
    “Mothers are all slightly insane.”
    ― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: motherhood
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    Margaret Sanger
    “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
    ― Margaret Sanger
    tags: abortion, motherhood, women
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    Lao Tzu
    “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity
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    Jack Kerouac
    “One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: compassion, kindness, serenity
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    Satchidananda
    “We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing? (136-137)”
    ― Sri S. Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali
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    Epicurus
    “Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: awful, death, inspirational, peace, philosophy, serenity, wisdom
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    Jane Austen
    “I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
    tags: self-control, serenity
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: satyagraha, serenity
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    Salman Rushdie
    “How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
    tags: civil-society, courage, freedom, serenity, stoicism, terrorism
    247 likes

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  • #11
    Lao Tzu
    “Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: action, inspirational, serenity
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: failure, intelligence, science, scientific-process, success, truth
    2021 likes

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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: achievement, beauty, clichés, distinction, empowerment, gender, gentleness, greatness, history, intelligence, self-determination, stereotypes, women
    464 likes

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    Groucho Marx
    “Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: government, intelligence
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    George Carlin
    “The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: america, george-carlin, intelligence
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    Coco Chanel
    “It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: autonomy, bachelorhood, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, love, marriage, matrimony, men, self-determination, self-sufficiency, singles, strength, women
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"

    [To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)]”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: empowerment, equality, feminist, gandhi, gender, inspirational, men, strength, women
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    Audre Lorde
    “But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: consciousness, feminist, lesbian, womanist
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  • #21
    “Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it.”
    ― Gwen Sharp
    tags: femininity, feminist
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    Mark Twain
    “What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: creation, evolution, humor, mankind
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
    tags: america, big-bang, big-bang-theory, church-and-state, creation, creationism, dinosaurs, education, evolution, first-amendment, freedom, freedom-of-religion, intelligent-design, letters, literacy, new-jersey, new-york-times, noah-s-ark, religion, scientific-literacy, teachers, teaching
    398 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats and then monkeys, and hundreds of things in between. This hand was once a fin, this hand once had claws! In my human mouth I have the pointy teeth of a wolf and the chisel teeth of a rabbit and the grinding teeth of a cow! Our blood is as salty as the sea we used to live in! When we're frightened, the hair on our skin stands up, just like it did when we had fur. We are history! Everything we've ever been on the way to becoming us, we still are. [...]

    I'm made up of the memories of my parents and my grandparents, all my ancestors. They're in the way I look, in the colour of my hair. And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
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    Milton Berle
    “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
    ― Milton Berle
    tags: evolution, intelligent-design, motherhood
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  • #26
    “If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.”
    ― Joe Rogan
    tags: evolution, live, universe
    168 likes



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