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The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
George Dix
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The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
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The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
Lord Halifax
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A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual"- find out how he feels about astrology.
Robert Heinlein
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Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Robert Heinlein
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If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
Robert Heinlein
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Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.
Werner Herzog
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The unicorn is a very fierce beast with only one horn. To capture it a virgin maid is placed in the field. The unicorn approaches her, and resting in her lap, is so taken.
Bishop Honorius
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There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.
Kevin Kelly
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There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles Kettering
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The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
Paul Kurtz
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
W. Somerset Maugham
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