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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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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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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Paul Adam
    “You mean you kidnap them, brainwash them with a dangerous drug that kills some and leaves others brain-damaged, then send the ones who are lucky enough to survive back to betray their friends so you can make a few more billion dollars? You're one sick weirdo.”
    ― Paul Adam, Jaws of Death
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    Eleanor Baker
    “Ek is meer bekommerd dat daar nie meer bome vir papier is nie as wat ek bekommerd is oor die toekoms van Afrikaans.”
    ― Eleanor Baker
    tags: conservation, language
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    Eleanor Baker
    “Ek weet nie of u dit verstaan nie. Ons is vry, maar ons bly eensaam.”
    ― Eleanor Baker, Dossier van 'n gyseling
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    Isaac Asimov
    “We were never under any delusions as to which was more important, an individual or humanity.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, The Caves Of Steel & The Rest Of The Robots
    tags: delusion, humanity, individuality
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    Edward de Bono
    “Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.”
    ― Edward De Bono, The Use of Lateral Thinking
    tags: inspirational, real-life
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    Edward de Bono
    “If you never change your mind, why have one?”
    ― Edward de Bono
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    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “Buddhism spreads by people converting out of their own wish for peace and right action. But power condenses around those willing to use force.”
    ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
    tags: buddhism, peace, power, religion, war
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    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.”
    ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
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    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “Every day we wake up into a new world, each sleep causes yet another reincarnation.”
    ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
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    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “The people are suffering. Relieving people’s poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.”
    ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
    tags: compassion, poverty, suffering
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    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “Chinese Buddhism was the natural study of reality, and led to feelings of devotion just from noting the daily leaves, the colors of the sky, the animals seen from the corner of the eye.”
    ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
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    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “It takes courage to keep love at the center when you know just as well as anyone else the real state of things! It’s easy to get angry, anyone can do that. It’s making good that’s the hard part, it’s staying hopeful that’s the hard part! It’s staying in love that’s the hard part.”
    ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
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    “There has to come a time when we children of apartheid, black and white, say to each other, "Look, my grandparents were not right with your grandparents. My parents were not right with your parents. But I want to be right with you." We have to be the generation who understands that racism, sexism, homophobia, religious bigotry - inequality in all its ugly guises - splinters the most powerful asset available to humankind: unity.”
    ― Ndaba Mandela, Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela
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    Eve Adams
    “The biology teacher had assured the class just the other day that parents were an absolute necessity, but you had to wonder. Was sex the only way nature could devise to bring the higher orders' next generation into the world?”
    ― Eve Adams, The Garden of Eden - Cancelled
    tags: family, human-relations, humour
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    Paul A.M. Dirac
    “I never read. It prevents me from thinking.”
    ― Paul Dirac
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
    tags: adventure, reading
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    “This does not mean that we need treat all as equally true: it is up to individuals and groups to make up their minds. Freedom of faith allows for rich diversity of judgements as to the truth.”
    ― Ninian Smart, The Religious Experience of Mankind
    tags: freedom, harmony, religions, truth
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    Iain M. Banks
    “Very little matters very much and almost nothing matters greatly.”
    ― Iain M. Banks, Feersum Endjinn
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  • #26
    “Education is no barometer for superstition”
    ― Karen Palmer, Spellbound: Inside West Africa's Witch Camps
    tags: ghana, supernatural, superstition, witchcraft, withces
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  • #27
    “I've lived my life doing what everyone else expects me to do. And I've had enough!”
    ― Vivienne Cleven, Bitin' Back
    tags: homophobia, racism, sexism
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    Steve Jones
    “To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about 50% of our DNA with bananas - that does not make us half bananas!”
    ― Steve Jones
    tags: biology, genes, genetics, science
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    Wahiduddin Khan
    “In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)”
    ― Wahiduddin Khan, The True Jihad: The Concept of Peace, Tolerance and Non Violence in Islam
    tags: peace, tolerance
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    Wahiduddin Khan
    “If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)”
    ― Wahiduddin Khan, The True Jihad: The Concept of Peace, Tolerance and Non Violence in Islam
    tags: character, differences
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