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“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: chapter-24, life, will-herondale

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“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: humility, throne

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“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: children, critical-thinking, indoctrination

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“You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: bullying, friends, pity, school, schoolmates

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“Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.”
― Emmett F. Fields

tags: atheism, misattributed-to-carl-sagan, religion

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