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“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”

- David Hume

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”

- Anne Frank

“Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.”

- Voltaire

"Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.

- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

- Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.”

- Clarence Darrow

"Those at too great a distance may, I am well aware, mistake ignorance for perspective.”

- Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships,"

- W. E. B. Du Bois, first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University

“The public, which has been wrong before and is wrong now, can accept only demons and angels on the stage.”

- Theophille Gautier