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Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.

Atheism - Christianity - End - Italy - People - Punishment - Reality - Religion - Support - Witchcraft

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

Actions - Choice - Force - Judging - Man - Novel - People - Philosophy - Thinking - Wants

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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.

Bravery - Challenge - End

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Zig Ziglar

Politician, Author, Author

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Encouragement - Family - Friendship - Happiness - Insight - Inspiration - Love - Motivation - Reality

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Neil Gaiman

Author, Screenwriter

Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

Expose - Feelings - Mindset - People - Playing - Sound - Start - Story - Urgency - Vision - Voice - Writing

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Karl Marx

Philosopher, Economist, Political Theorist, Social Revolutionary

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Inspiration - Man - Rich

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

Enlightenment - Ignorance - Strength - Teaching - Wants - Weakness

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should tell a person how to spend their money. I try not to tell people what to read.

Feelings - People - Sometimes - Thinking - Trial

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Franz Kafka

Novelist, Writer

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

Inspiration - Key - Oneself

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Spiritual leader

Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong

Inspiration - Motivation

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Mother Teresa

Nun, Missionary

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Frustration - Good - Inspiration - Knowledge - Mother - Saints - Spiritual

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Ernest Hemingway

Journalist, Novelist

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Father - Success

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Laozi

Philosopher

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Death - Enlightenment - Inspiration - Spiritual

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Thomas Paine

Philosopher, Founding Father of the United States

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.

Almighty - Belief - Heavens - Lie - Permission - Teaching - Writing

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.

Accept - Effort - Inspiration - Life - People - Remembering

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Giving - Good - Inspiration - Philosophy

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Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.

Ability - Change - Conviction - Emotions - Inspiration - Listening - People

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Confucius

Philosopher, Politician

If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what's good of the first one and I would imitate him whereas I would try to correct in me the defects I may see in the second one.

Perception - Teaching - Trial - Virtue

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