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    Max Planck
    “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
    ― Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
    tags: paradigm-shift, science, scientists
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: doubt, intelligent, problems, smart, stupid, world
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    James Baldwin
    “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
    ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
    tags: fear, hate, pain
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    Alex Haley
    “Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
    ― Alex Haley
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    Isaac Asimov
    “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance
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    Heinrich Heine
    “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
    ― Heinrich Heine
    tags: books, censorship
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    Herman Melville
    “Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: madness, wisdom, woe
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    Upton Sinclair
    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
    ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
    tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding
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    Joan D. Chittister
    “Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.”
    ― Joan D. Chittister, God Speaks in Many Tongues: Meditate with Joan Chittister
    tags: faith, religion
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: cynical, life, truth
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    You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world,
    “You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: independent-thought
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    Daniel Kahneman
    “A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
    ― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
    tags: psychology, science, social-behavior
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
    ― Friedrich W. Nietzsche
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    Bertrand Russell
    “It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: bertrand-russell, freedom, materialism, posessions
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    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding
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    Carl Sagan
    “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: aristocracy, capitalism, corruption, government, history, oppression, power, rationalization, society
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, A Dictionary of Idiocy: The Ulitmate Guide to Curious, Shocking and General Ignorance
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
    tags: truth
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge”
    ― Bertrand Russell, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Comparison is the thief of joy.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: comparing, envy, happiness, unhappiness
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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    Gabriel Chevallier
    “The law, as manipulated by clever and highly respected rascals, still remains the best avenue for a career of honourable and leisurely plunder.”
    ― Gabriel Chevallier, Clochemerle
    tags: lawyers, the-law
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    Gabriel Chevallier
    “Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.”
    ― Gabriel Chevallier, Fear
    tags: ignorance, leaders, man, stupidity, war
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    Hayao Miyazaki
    “The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.”
    ― Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1
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    James Baldwin
    “Whoever debases others is debasing himself.”
    ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
    tags: life, love, racism
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    Jared Diamond
    “[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.”
    ― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    tags: error, stubbornness, values
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