History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ― Karl Marx

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If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? ― Steven Wright

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I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.- Neil Armstrong

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

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The prerequisite for writing is having something to say. ― Langston Hughes

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God in his infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise- So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise. ― Langston Hughes

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Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. — Zig Ziglar

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Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. ― Langston Hughes

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