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“There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave”
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“If you ever meet anyone who tells you his or her religion can offer all the answers, run for the hills. Or at least hide your wallet.”
Source : Greg Epstein (2009). “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe”, p.1, Harper Collins
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“I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.”
Source : "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poems are a form of texting" by Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011. 
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“People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner.”
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“Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.”
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“Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.”
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“...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as I am concerned, it made no difference... If my memory serves me correctly, we had some five thousand strategic nuclear warheads as against t heir three hundred. Can anyone seriously tell me that their having three hundred and forty would have made any difference? The military balance wasn't changed. I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now..."”
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“Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?”
Source : Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.20, Harper Collins
