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    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
    tags: education, experience, wisdom
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    Thomas Paine
    “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
    tags: close-mindedness, simile, stubbornness
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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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    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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    Thomas Paine
    “It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: belief, bible, cruel, cruelty, murder, rapine, the-bible
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    Thomas Paine
    “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
    ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
    tags: common-sense
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    Thomas Paine
    “One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: christianity, religion, separation-of-church-and-state, skepticism
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    Thomas Paine
    “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
    ― Thomas Paine
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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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    Thomas Paine
    “I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: christianity, religion, skepticism
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    Thomas Paine
    “He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
    ― Thomas Paine
    tags: activism, truth-and-lies, wisdom
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  • #12
    Thomas Paine
    “Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
    ― Thomas Paine
    tags: character, reputation
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    Thomas Paine
    “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
    ― Thomas Paine
    tags: anger, anger-management
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    Thomas Paine
    “Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”
    ― Thomas Paine
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    Thomas Paine
    “I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
    ― Thomas Paine
    tags: character, steadfastness
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
    tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
    tags: life, love
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: hindsight, regret
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
    Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
    Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
    Man got to tell himself he understand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
    tags: life, nature, philosophy
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor, politics
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: reason, time
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “To be is to do - Socrates

    To do is to be - Sartre

    Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor, truth
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “- Why me?
    - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?
    - Yes.
    - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “All this happened, more or less.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: first-sentence
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Science is magic that works.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If you can do no good, at least do no harm.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
    tags: mantra
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle
    tags: arts
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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