“You are a human being first. Before race, country or religion.”
– Unknown
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Believe nothing – Buddha
“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it, or because it is tradition, or because you yourself have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for him. But whatever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings, believe and cling to that doctrine, and take it as your guide.”
– Buddha
“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
– Martin Luther King
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Monopoly – Steven Wright
“I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.”
– Steven Wright
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Bottom – Michel de Montaigne
“Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.”
– Michel de Montaigne
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Think – HL Mencken
“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.”
– HL Mencken
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Universe – Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Temptations – Alain de Botton
“We shouldn’t congratulate ourselves for resisting temptations we never felt in the first place.”
– Alain de Botton
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Threesome – Unknown
“I don’t mean to brag, but I’m 2 girls away from a threesome.”
– Unknown
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Regret – Alain de Botton
“Regret is the price we pay for choice.”
– Alain de Botton
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Dangerous – Voltaire
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”
– Voltaire
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In the summer – Nizam Qabbani
“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
– Nizam Qabbani
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I cannot change the world – Martin Sheen
“I cannot change the world. The only one I can change is myself. If I change myself, come to some realization, grow a little bit, maybe that’s the measure of change in the world I can have. But otherwise it would be a reflection of my ego and absurdity to think that I would ever change anyone or anything. I just do it for myself, because I cannot not do it and be myself.”
– Martin Sheen
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Nobody was watching – Keith Jensen
“What Orwell failed to predict was that we’d buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”
– Keith Jensen
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Purpose – Mark Manson
“Discovering one’s “purpose” in life essentially boils down to finding those one or two things that are bigger than yourself, and bigger than those around you. And to find them you must get off your couch and act, and take the time to think beyond yourself, to think greater than yourself, and paradoxically, to imagine a world without yourself.”
– Mark Manson