"When love rules, power disappears. When power rules, love disappears."

Coelho, Paulo on love   

"Tell your heart that fear of suffering is worst than the suffering itself"

Coelho, Paulo on life   

"When you say 'Yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'No' to yourself"

Coelho, Paulo on life   

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."

Coelho, Paulo on
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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure"

Coelho, Paulo on life   

"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."

Asimov, Isaac on science   

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking."

Asimov, Isaac on change
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"People who have little to do are excessive talkers."

Proverb on behavior
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"Belief gets in the way of learning."

Heinlein, Robert on belief
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"Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way."

Heinlein, Robert on experience
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"Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories."

Wilmot, John on children   

"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak."

Epictetus on listening
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus on affirmation
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"For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship."

Epictetus on fear
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"Freedom is the right to live as we wish."

Epictetus on freedom
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"Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."

Epictetus on opinions
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

Epictetus on attitude
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"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

Epictetus on action
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"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."

Epictetus on speakers and speaking
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"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."

Franklin, Benjamin on peace
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"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it."

Whately, Richard on losers and losing   

"Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one."

Whately, Richard on men
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"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."

Whately, Richard on truth
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"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk."

Edison, Thomas A. on atheism
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"I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose"

Darrow, Clarence on atheism
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"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color."

Hirschberg, Don on atheism
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"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."

Dawkins, Richard on atheism
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"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men."

Bacon, Francis on atheism   

"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer."

Anonymous on atheism
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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."

Anthony, Susan B. on atheism
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"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

Weinberg, Steven on atheism
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"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

Einstein, Albert on atheism
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"You do not need the bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate."

Weatherwax, Richard A. on atheism
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality."

Shaw, George Bernard on atheism
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"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on atheism
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"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."

Roddenberry, Gene on atheism
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."

Seneca on atheism
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"If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul."

Asimov, Isaac on atheism
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."

Abbey, Edward on atheism
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