"I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals."

-- Michel Onfray

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“The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.”
“I think there's a core of real anger or misery inside every true stand-up comic.”
“Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else.”
“A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcanic operations. Our sublimest volcanoes would rank among the smaller lunar eminences; and our Etnas are but spitting furnaces.”

Source : "On the Volcanoes of the Moon", American Journal of Science, p. 347, 1846.
“Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.”
“I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!”

Source : Record Collector, May 2003.
“I was involved in some peaceful protests.”

Source : "Akin acknowledges arrest at anti-abortion protest from long ago". www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2012.
“The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.”

Source : "A 'Cooked Seed' Sprouts After All, In America". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 12, 2013.

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