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    Thomas Paine
    “Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
    ― thomas paine, Rights of Man
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    Flann O'Brien
    “Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”
    ― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
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    Thomas Paine
    “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
    ― Thomas Paine
    tags: blessings, freedom, liberty
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    Richard M. Stallman
    “When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.”
    ― Richard M. Stallman
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    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, knowledge
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    Mark Twain
    “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: morals
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    Mark Twain
    “Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: on-writing
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    Donald Ervin Knuth
    “The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.”
    ― Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Computer Science
    tags: computer-science, programming
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    Flann O'Brien
    “I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”
    ― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    Richard Dawkins
    “Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
    ― Richard Dawkins
    tags: institutions, organized-religion, religion, richard-dawkins
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    Richard Dawkins
    “More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: satisfaction, understanding
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    Victor J. Stenger
    “Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.”
    ― Victor Stenger
    tags: religions, science
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    Robert M. Pirsig
    “When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”
    ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
    tags: atheism, god, religion
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    Richard Dawkins
    “There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”
    ― Richard Dawkins
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    Richard Dawkins
    “The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.”
    ― Richard Dawkins
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    Richard Dawkins
    “My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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    Richard Dawkins
    “Science is the poetry of reality.”
    ― Richard Dawkins
    tags: poetry, science
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    Thomas Paine
    “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

    All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: church, creed, enslave, greek, human-invention, jewish, monopolize, power, profit, protestant, religion, roman, turkish
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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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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers
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    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: courage
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    Mark Twain
    “The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-children
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    Mark Twain
    “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: enlightening
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    Mark Twain
    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, success
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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
    ― Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being
    tags: assumptions, hammer, instrumentalism, problem-solving, psychology, science, temptation
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    Mark Twain
    “Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, simile
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