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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
    “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: evidence, faith, science, skepticism
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    Carl Sagan
    “The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: indifferent, universe
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    Carl Sagan
    “A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: life, organized-religion, religion, science, zealotry
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Mark Twain
    “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: morals
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    Mark Twain
    “Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”
    ― Mark Twain, Notebook
    tags: happiness, inspiration, life, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem
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    Mark Twain
    “Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and
    shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you
    know ain't so'.”
    ― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
    tags: faith, humor, wit
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    Mark Twain
    “I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”
    ― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
    tags: cats, home
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    Mark Twain
    “There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
    ― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
    tags: philosophy
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    Mark Twain
    “A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: religion
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    Mark Twain
    “I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “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
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “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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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: causality, causation, cause-and-effect, chance, darwinism, inspirational, kalam-cosmological-argument, luck, naturalism, necessity, serendipity
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: originality
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: satire
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The reward of a thing well done is having done it.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: friends
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The people are to be taken in very small doses.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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