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“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

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“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

tags: atheism, god, religion

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#4

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, inspirational

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#6

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#7

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#8

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#9

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: charity, compassion, gratitude, helping-others, inspiration

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#10

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: giving, helping-others

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#11

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
― John Holmes

tags: charity, compassion, friendship, generosity, helping-others

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#12

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness

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#13

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life

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#14

“For years I had been aware of an important deficiency in the English language: a word to describe something a person loses that was never really hers.”
― Ellen Miller, Like Being Killed

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“I was too apathetic to be bored or anxious. Boredom and anxiety were the neurotic cousins of concern; they implied wishes. I had no wishes or wants. I didn't even want dope. I only needed it.”
― Ellen Miller, Like Being Killed

tags: addiction

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#16

“Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.”
― Henry Miller, Henry Miller on Writing

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#17

“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

tags: church, creed, enslave, greek, human-invention, jewish, monopolize, power, profit, protestant, religion, roman, turkish

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#18

“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

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