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Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

by Thomas Sowell

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“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

tags: censorship, independent-thought, technology-addiction, thinking

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“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: paraphrased, philosophy

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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism

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“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, existentialism, follow-your-bliss, self-actualization, self-determination

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“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding

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