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Ignorance – Unknown

“I will not censor my opinion to comfort your ignorance”

– Unknown

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Believe – Maya Angelou

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them, the first time.”

– Maya Angelou

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Absence of facts – Hilary Mantel

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”

– Hilary Mantel

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Dig – Matisyahu

“I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.”

– Matisyahu

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Alternative medicine – Tim Minchin

“Do you know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? Medicine.”

-Tim Minchin

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Symbols – Alan Watts

“Civilization, comprising all the achievements of art and science, technology and industry, is the result of man’s invention and manipulation of symbols – of words, letters, numbers, formulas and concepts, and of such social institutions as universally accepted clocks and rulers, scales and timetables, schedules and laws. By these means, we measure, predict, and control the behavior of the human and natural worlds – and with such startling apparent success that the trick goes to our heads. All too easily, we confuse the world as we symbolize it with the world as it is.”

– Alan Watts

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Character – Japanese proverb

“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”

– Japanese proverb

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Benefit – ‏@TheTweetOfGod

The entire universe was created for the benefit of those members of one species on one planet who correctly believe in an invisible entity.

– ‏@TheTweetOfGod

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God save us – Vikram Seth

“God save us from people who mean well.”

– Vikram Seth

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Sea and the stars – Finn Butler

“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water.
And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes
you cannot even breathe deeply, and
the night sky is no home, and
you have cried yourself to sleep enough times
that you are down to your last two percent, but

nothing is infinite,
not even loss.

You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day
you are going to find yourself again.”

– Finn Butler

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Others think of us – Ethel Barrett

“We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.”

– Ethel Barrett

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The first – Unknown

“The first to apologise is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.”

– Unknown

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Moon smile – Silvia Plath

“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression of something beautiful, but annihilating.”

– Silvia Plath

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Good side – Jimmy Buffett

“It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.”

– Jimmy Buffett

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Hire – Unknown

“Hire character. Train skill.”

– Unknown