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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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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]

Gratefulness - Pain - Quality - Suffering - Thinking - World

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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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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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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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Ludwig von Mises

Composer, Economist, Philosopher

Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.

Activity - Choice - Citizenry - Democracy - Economy - Effort - Machine - Majority - Oppression - Resistance - State - Thinking - Violence

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Napoleon Hill

Leader, Writer, Author

Think and grow rich.

Growing - Rich - Thinking

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Louise Hay

Author

Learn to think in positive affirmations. Affirmations are any statements you make. Too often we think in negative affirmations. Negative affirmations only create more of what you say you don't want. Saying, “I hate my job,” will get you nowhere. Declaring, “I now accept a wonderful new job,” will open the channels in your consciousness to create that.

Accept - Consciousness - Hate - Jobs - Negative - Thinking - Wants

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it.

Earth - Living - Making - Thinking

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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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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

Ego - Envy - Feelings - Illusion - Madness - Strength - Taking - Thinking

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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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Alan Watts

Philosopher

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

Allowance - Effort - Inspiration - Oneself - People

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Amartya Sen

Economist, Philosopher

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

Identity - People - Terrorism - Violence

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

Battle - People - Strength

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Tony Robbins

Actor, Author, Author

Most people achieve their goals and are like, "Is this all there is?" We are supposed to keep growing so we have something to get. What we get never makes us happy. You play yourself when you forget that.

Achievement - Goals - Growing - People - Playing

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

End - Grace - Meaning - Romance - State - Teaching - Thinking

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