"Religion is the opium of the masses."

Marx, Karl on religion
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"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you."

Proverb, Spanish on gossip
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"To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so."

Proverb, French on belief
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"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

Beaton, Sir Cecil on courage
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"You are only what you are when no one is looking."

Edwards, Robert C. on appearance
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"Here lies an Atheist: All Dressed Up and No Place to Go."

Epitaph on atheism
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"You can't know too much, but you can say too much."

Coolidge, Calvin on knowledge
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"You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal."

Munro, Barry on purpose
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names."

Proverb, Chinese on names
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"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."

Cronenberg, David on censorship
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"You can cage the singer but not the song."

Belafonte, Harry on censorship
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"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."

France, Anatole on action
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"You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive"

Kazan, Elia on risk
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"Nature is the art of God."

Dante Alighieri on nature
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"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."

Robbins, Anthony on failure
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

Aristotle on education
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle on habit
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"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on complaints and complaining
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"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing."

Astor, Lady Nancy on change
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"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."

Perkhurst, Charles H. on perception
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"History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal."

Twain, Mark on history and historians
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"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

Vivekananda, Swami on fear
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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Buddha on happiness
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

Buddha on anger
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"Everything changes, nothing remains without change."

Buddha on change
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear."

Buddha on wisdom
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"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

Buddha on control
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"We live in a rainbow of chaos."

Cezanne, Paul on chaos
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"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."

Allen, James on self-improvement
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything."

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"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them."

Gerard, Ralph on imagination
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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."

Gallagher, Robert C. on adversity
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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

Hugo, Victor on adversity
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"So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today"

christ, jesus on jesus
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"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."

Camus, Albert on government
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