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"The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo."
"In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty."
"No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists."
"Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it."
"Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful. She trusted she did them no injustice in thus condemning them as a race. She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft-spoken was he. One day he was arrested for stabbing his wife. She never knew whether he had been hanged or not."
"Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling."
"Your story needs to move people’s spirits and build their goodwill, so that when you finally do ask them to buy from you, they feel like you’ve given them so much it would be almost rude to refuse."
"Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well."
"If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing."
"Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness."
"The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it."
"There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all."
"We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question."
"Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it."
"The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever increasing economic disparity and the well-funded legislative decisions all favour corporate interests over the people's."
"It's cool to go places where working people are happy."
"I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them."
"In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength."
"I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents."
"Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely."
