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We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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