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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
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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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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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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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    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
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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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
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
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    Anne Frank
    “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
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    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: writing
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    Anne Frank
    “Because paper has more patience than people. ”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: affirming, inspirational, uplifting
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    Anne Frank
    “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: beauty, hope, inspirational, joy
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    Anne Frank
    “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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    Anne Frank
    “Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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    Anne Frank
    “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: candle, darkness, illumination, misattributed
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    Gautama Buddha
    “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
    ― Dhammapada, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
    tags: buddha, buddhism, wisdom
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

    [Verse 223]”
    ― Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada
    tags: anger, generosity, goodness, inspirational, kindness, knowledge, love, truth, wisdom
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
    ― Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
    tags: forgiveness, hatred
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
    ― Buddha, The Dhammapada
    tags: buddhism, peace, words
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    Gautama Buddha
    “The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.”
    ― Dhammapada, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
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