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#1

“Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.”
― Harlow Shapley

tags: astronomy, big-bang, cosmology, humor, hydrogen, pious, science

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#2

“The solar system is off center and consequently man is too ...”
― Harlow Shapley, Through Rugged Ways to the Stars

tags: man, solar-system

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#3

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

tags: errors, philosophy, religion

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#4

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
― David Hume

tags: emotions, philosophy, reason

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#5

“But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
― David Hume, On Suicide

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#6

“Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.”
― Adam Gopnik

tags: brain, humor, mind, puns, self-awareness, speaking, thinking, wit

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#7

“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”
― Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon

tags: language

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#8

“I love you forever' really means 'Just trust me for now,' which is all it ever means, and we just hope to keep renewing the "now," year after year.”
― Adam Gopnik, Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York

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#9

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: loneliness, solitude

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#10

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
― Jean Paul Sartre

tags: freedom

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#11

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility

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#12

“We are our choices.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: choices

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#13

“If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.”
― Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

tags: morality, neuroscience, well-being

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#14

“Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.”
― Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

tags: christian, morality, muslim

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#15

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

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#16

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading

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#17

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

tags: life

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#18

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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#19

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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#20

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

tags: courage, determination, hope, risk

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#21

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
― William Faulkner

tags: inspirational, perfectionism, personality, potential, self-improvement

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#22

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

tags: past, time

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#23

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

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#24

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#25

“If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: life, story, time

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#26

“Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
― Joseph Campbell

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#27

“tell me
of something fiercer
than the love with which
i gaze upon you

of something softer
than the tenderness
with which i hold you.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: love-poetry, poetry, poetry-quotations, poetry-quotes, tenderness

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#28

“Home for me is not where I am. Home for me is a physical structure where the girl whom I love is sheltered and protected from the incoming storms of life. Home for me is not where I am safe, but where she is safe. Home for me is not where she exists, but where she lives. She is my home.”
― Juansen Dizon, Confessions of a Wallflower

tags: home, home-poetry, home-quotes, love, love-poetry, love-quotes, relationship

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