"Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable."

-- Johann Most

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“The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.”
“People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.303, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for what he saw as the tedious process of achieving consensus through debate and discussion and tried to justify his solitary exercise of power by insisting it was what Iran needed to catch up with lost time. He believed he was more patriotic than anyone else and needed no advice on how best to promote and protect the highest interests of the nation.”
“No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states.”
“The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.”
“You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.”
“The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics...Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect...and it is still alive today.”
“At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.”

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