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Aldous Huxley

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.


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Muhammad Ali

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.


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Barack Obama

At a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.


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Shepherd Book

A government is a body of people, usually, noteably, ungoverned.

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Ellen Ripley

I don't know which species is worse, Burke. You don't see them fucking each other over a goddamn percentage.

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Winston Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery - Winston Churchill.

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Vick Robin

How you spend your money is how you vote on what exists in the world.

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Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

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Voltaire (1694-1778)

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

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Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

Isn't it enough to see that the garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

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