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    “a prerequisite for the creation of the intellectual edifice upon which your spreadsheets, air-conditioned offices and mobile phones rest was the curiosity-driven quest to understand the motions of the planets and the Earth’s place amongst the stars.”
    ― Brian Cox, Human Universe
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    Ricky Gervais
    “You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: a-holiday-message, atheism, be-nice, hell, why-i-m-an-atheist
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    Ricky Gervais
    “Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
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    Ricky Gervais
    “Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
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    Ricky Gervais
    “Beliefs do not change facts. Facts, if one is rational, should change beliefs.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: ricky-gervais, the-unbelievers
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    Ricky Gervais
    “The best thing about being dead is that you don't know about it. It's like being stupid - it's only painful for others.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: death
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    Ricky Gervais
    “Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: religion, religious-people
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  • #8
    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: books, e-readers, kindle, reading
    2714 likes

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  • #9
    Stephen Fry
    “Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: inspirational, philosophy
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  • #10
    Stephen Fry
    “I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: freedom, language, tolerance, truth
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    Stephen Fry
    “Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.”
    ― Stephen Fry
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    Stephen Fry
    “A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: destiny
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  • #13
    Megan Shepherd
    “Writing a book is like telling a stranger your secrets.”
    ― Megan Shepherd
    tags: books, writing, writing-advice
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    Megan Shepherd
    “The hardest thing to write is a sentence that says as much as a page.”
    ― Megan Shepherd
    tags: books, fiction, writing
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    Thomas Carlyle
    “If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.”
    ― Thomas Carlyle, Essays On Goethe
    tags: books, philosophy, reading, time
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    Steve Stern
    “Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.”
    ― Steve Stern
    tags: books
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
    13740 likes

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  • #20
    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: attitude, choice, giving, happiness, inspirational, kindness, life-and-living, life-lessons, motivational, positive-affirmation
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
    7767 likes

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  • #23
    “Tarot and dreams are two dialects in the language of the soul.”
    ― Philippe St Genoux
    tags: tarot
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  • #24
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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  • #25
    Margaret Atwood
    “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: apocryphal, feminism
    3956 likes



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