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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl
    tags: behaviour, conscientiousness, frankl, freedom, growth, impulse, response, stimulus
    654 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: love
    6158 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: identity, originality
    6257 likes

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    Dante Alighieri
    “The path to paradise begins in hell.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: heaven, hell, paradise
    1189 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: suicide, survival
    836 likes

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    George Carlin
    “Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: common-sense, equality, feminism, humanism, humor, inspirational, men-and-women
    2144 likes

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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
    2310 likes

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    William Golding
    “The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
    tags: inspirational, simplicity
    736 likes

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    Franz Kafka
    “The meaning of life is that it stops.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, life
    2147 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adaptation, flexibility, intelligence, open-mindedness, wisdom
    4347 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
    ― Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners
    tags: compassion, death, execution, intelligence, scholars, thinkers
    806 likes

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    Robert Penn Warren
    “The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.”
    ― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
    tags: fate, happenstance, luck, need, privilege
    42 likes

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    Jack Kerouac
    “Love is all.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    114 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: paraphrased, philosophy
    1326 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
    tags: cruelty, fear, superstition
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    Richard Dawkins
    “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: bible, christianity, god, organized-religion, religion, yahweh
    1905 likes

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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Боже мой, как я ненавижу все это - лавки, вещи за стеклом, тупое лицо товара и в особенности церемониал сделки, обмен приторными любезностями до и после! А эти опущенные ресницы скромной цены... благородство уступки... человеколюбие торговой рекламы... все это скверное подражание добру,- странно засасывающее добрых”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift
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    Richard Dawkins
    “Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
    ― Richard Dawkins
    tags: institutions, organized-religion, religion, richard-dawkins
    324 likes



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