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    Hubert Reeves
    “Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.”
    ― Hubert Reeves
    tags: god, human, nature, worship
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    “You shouldn't let poets lie to you.”
    ― Björk
    tags: humor
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    Cassandra Clare
    “All knowledge hurts.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: city-of-bones, disillusionment, experience, knowledge, wisdom
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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    “I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.”
    ― Bjork
    tags: girl, nerd, nerd-girl, nerds
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    ― François Rabelais
    tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter
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    J. Devau
    “..If not for the influence of Humans, I would not be Human. Shouldn't it be concerning that the quality of such examples continues to dwindle?”
    ― J. Devau, Theory of the Atheist
    tags: intrinsic-value, knowledge-of-self, social-norms
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    J. Devau
    “I was not alone in my success, only in my failure.”
    ― J. Devau, Theory of the Atheist
    tags: knowledge, wisdom-in-fiction, wisdom-words
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