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“To some people return to religion is the answer, not as an act of faith but in order to escape an intolerable doubt; they make this decision not out of devotion but in search of security.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

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“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free”
― Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

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“desire for normality; a longing to adapt to some recognized and general rule; a wish to be like everyone else, from the moment that being different meant being guilty.”
― Alberto Moravia, The Conformist: A Novel

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“Everything that will happen will happen...and if you don't get to see it.. It will be because we didn't live long enough”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

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“After 7 or 8 billion years of such enrichment, an undistinguished star (the Sun) was born in an undistinguished region (the Orion arm) of an undistinguished galaxy (the Milky Way) in an undistinguished part of the universe (the outskirts of the Virgo supercluster). The gas cloud from which the Sun formed contained a sufficient supply of heavy elements to spawn a few planets, thousands of asteroids, and billions of comets.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

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