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  • #1
    “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
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
    ― Jean Jacques Rousseau
    tags: wisdom
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    tags: freedom
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    Thomas Paine
    “The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.”
    ― Thomas Paine
    tags: belief, christian-religion, falsified, sun, worship
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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.”
    ― Daniel C. Dennett, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness
    tags: science
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
    tags: rational-thought, science
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  • #7
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”
    ― Shannon Alder
    tags: achievements, charity, commencement-speech, death, death-and-dying, dying, epitaph, eulogy, funerals, goals, gravestone, hearts, kindness, legacy, life, life-lessons, life-missions, life-purpose, purpose, speeches, stories, story, tombstones, tribute
    783 likes

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    “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
    ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
    tags: hope, inspiration, inspirational, life, truth
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: doubt, terrifying, vile
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    Marilyn Manson
    “When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.”
    ― Marilyn Manson
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    Marilyn Manson
    “We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.”
    ― Marilyn Manson
    tags: abortion, america, war
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  • #12
    Marilyn Manson
    “All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.”
    ― Marilyn Manson
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  • #13
    Marilyn Manson
    “When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.”
    ― Marilyn Manson
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    Marilyn Manson
    “You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.”
    ― Marilyn Manson
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  • #15
    L.P. Hartley
    “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
    ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
    tags: history, memories, past
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: catatonia, coma, life
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  • #17
    Wei Wu Wei
    “Why are you unhappy?
    Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.”
    ― Wei Wu Wei
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    Robert Jordan
    “It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
    tags: egwene, eye-of-the-world, protection, rand, wheel-of-time
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    Michael J. Sullivan
    “Fools believe silence is a void needing to be filled; the wise understand there's no such thing as silence.”
    ― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Myth
    tags: mystic, quiet, suri, wisdom
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    C.G. Jung
    “You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: action, service
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  • #21
    Brandon Sanderson
    “You should try not to talk so much, friend,” he suggested. “You’ll sound far less stupid that way.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: drunk-dialing
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  • #23
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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  • #24
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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  • #25
    Robin Hobb
    “That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice
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    Robin Hobb
    “Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice
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  • #27
    Robin Hobb
    “Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice
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  • #28
    Robin Hobb
    “When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice
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  • #29
    Voltaire
    “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: denial, fear, reality, truth, truth-hurts, truth-quotes, truths
    847 likes

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  • #30
    Immanuel Kant
    “The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
    tags: death, dogma, morality
    178 likes



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