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    Julian Barnes
    “History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
    tags: history
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    Julian Barnes
    “Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: clarity
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    Julian Barnes
    “And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
    tags: pain, pleasure, time
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    Ken Kesey
    “We can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.”
    ― Ken Kesey
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    Ken Kesey
    “The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.”
    ― Ken Kesey
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    Victor J. Stenger
    “Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.”
    ― Victor Stenger
    tags: religions, science
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    Richard Dawkins
    “By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
    ― Richard Dawkins
    tags: open-mindedness
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    Richard Dawkins
    “We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
    tags: biology, humor
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous - Kim
    tags: fear, liars, self-deception
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed
    tags: humanity, isolation, lies, loneliness, misunderstanding
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills
    tags: accuracy, certainty, gender, guesses, men, women
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