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    Woody Allen
    “You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: hedonism, humor, sex
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abraham-lincoln, religion
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    Voltaire
    “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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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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    Lao Tzu
    “Simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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  • #7
    “This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then what would be a rainbow with only one color? Or a garden with only one kind of flower? Why would the Creator create a vast assortment of plants, ethnicities, and animals, if only one beast or seed is to dominate all of existence?”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: animals, beast, coexist, coexistence, coexisting-together, coexistência, color, colors-of-life, domination, equal, equality, ethic, ethnicity, exist, flowers, garden, gardener, gender, human, inferiority, life, mankind, nature, peace, peaceful, people, plants, race, racial, racism, rainbow, religion, seed, superiority, suzy-kassem, unity, universe, world
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
    tags: carpe-diem, future, present
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    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    Albert Camus
    “You can't create experience, you undergo it.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: contemporary-romance
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    Albert Camus
    “The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: existentialism, meaning-of-life, suicide, witty
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    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: inspirational
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    Laini Taylor
    “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.

    It did not end well.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    John Steinbeck
    “It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: educational-philosophy
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Noam Chomsky
    “The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: education, education-system, instituions
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    tags: education, homeschooling, ignorance, public-education
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    Noam Chomsky
    “I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: authority, challenge, dismantle, domination, freedom, heirarchy, human-freedom, illegitimate-power, justification
    535 likes

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  • #23
    Noam Chomsky
    “Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: education, inspiration, inspirational, learning
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: science
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if children['s] ... normal interest is maintained or even aroused, they can do all kinds of things in ways we don't understand.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: education
    180 likes

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  • #26
    Alfred North Whitehead
    “The purpose of thinking is to let the ideas die instead of us dying.”
    ― Alfred North Whitehead
    tags: ideas, thinking
    89 likes



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