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  • #31
    Christopher Hitchens
    “What do you most value in your friends?
    Their continued existence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
    tags: death, friends, friendship, life, proust-questionnaire, rushdie
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  • #32
    Christopher Hitchens
    “[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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  • #33
    Christopher Hitchens
    “How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, fundamentalism, religion, secularism, separation-of-church-and-state, united-states, united-states-constitution
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  • #34
    Christopher Hitchens
    “Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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  • #35
    Christopher Hitchens
    “To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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  • #36
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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  • #37
    Matt Ruff
    “Loosely translated Der schlechte Affe hasst seinen eigenen Geruch means that people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own.”
    ― Matt Ruff, Bad Monkeys
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  • #38
    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
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  • #39
    Amy Sedaris
    “I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge
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  • #40
    Amy Sedaris
    “The moment someone says, “Hey, everyone, listen to the words in this song,” your party is over.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
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  • #41
    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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  • #42
    George Orwell
    “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
    ― George Orwell, Why I Write
    tags: writing
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  • #43
    William Morris
    “If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
    ― William Morris
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  • #44
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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  • #45
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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  • #46
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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  • #47
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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  • #48
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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  • #49
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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  • #50
    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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  • #51
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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  • #52
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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  • #53
    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning
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  • #54
    Margaret Atwood
    “Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
    tags: age-adult
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  • #55
    Alan M. Turing
    “Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
    ― Alan Turing
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  • #56
    Alan M. Turing
    “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
    ― Alan Turing, Computing machinery and intelligence
    tags: distance, future, inspirational, progress, science, vision, work
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  • #57
    Alan M. Turing
    “It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.”
    ― Alan Turing
    tags: singularity
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  • #58
    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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  • #59
    Stephen King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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  • #60
    Stephen King
    “When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
    ― Stephen King, Storm of the Century
    tags: god, humor, religion
    7984 likes



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