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#1

“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
― Mark Twain

tags: beliefs, politics, religion

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#2

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, life

16770 likes

#3

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

16295 likes

#4

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
― Theodore Parker

tags: inspirational, justice, mlk

667 likes

#5

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

69721 likes

#6

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

tags: greatness

12742 likes

#7

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

62206 likes

#8

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: men-women

2213 likes

#9

“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: attributed-to-neruda-no-source

511 likes

#10

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

3874 likes

#11

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism

3180 likes

#12

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

4085 likes

#13

“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
― Tacitus

tags: caution, risk, safety

99 likes

#14

“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: life-philosophy

483 likes

#15

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
― Seneca the Younger

tags: goals

803 likes

#16

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: balance, life, work, work-life-balance

369 likes

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