“people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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“I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is matter of faith, and above reason.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“But Nature, it seems, was at the bottom of the affair, and she gains her ends with dogs as well as with men, making us do as she likes, shoving and pulling us along her ways, however rough, all but killing us at times in getting her lessons...”

― John Muir, Stickeen

“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“It cannot be maintained that empirical science provides a complete explanation of life, the interplay of all creatures and the whole of reality.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“the moral world . . . has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“As we gather tonight, our nation is at war, our economy is in recession, and the civilized world faces unprecedented dangers. Yet the state of our Union has never been stronger.”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn’t belong in a smart people’s club.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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