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    Muhammad Ali
    “Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”
    ― Muhammad Ali
    tags: racism
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    Elie Wiesel
    “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: judgmental-people, racism
    387 likes

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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78318 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: humor, religion
    438 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
    tags: animal-rights, animals, barbarism, compassion, cruelty, morality
    1180 likes

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    Plato
    “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: atheism, philosophy, religion
    1342 likes

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    Warren Buffett
    “If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: charity, finance, helping-others, inspiration, noblesse-oblige, success
    310 likes

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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
    For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: animals, dogs, humans
    961 likes

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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water
    3366 likes

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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: quality, reader, taste, writers, writing
    29 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: religion
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
    tags: contradiction, correcting, correction, criticism, inspirational, opinions, paranoia
    989 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
    12072 likes



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