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Christopher Hitchens: “The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.”

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Immanuel Kant: “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe -- the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. ”

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Kurt Vonnegut: “I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishment after I'm dead.”

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Thomas Paine: “ I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.”

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Marcus Aurelius: “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.”

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Thomas Alva Edison: “I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.”

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Isaac Asimov: “I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.”

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C. A. Bartol: “Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche: “In heaven all the interesting people are missing.”

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Amos Bronson Alcott: “Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps,
Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps.”

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Albert Camus: “Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”

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Emily Dickinson: “I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.”

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Pearl S. Buck: “We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.”

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Pearl S. Buck: “I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.”

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Norbert Capek: “It is worthwhile to live
and fight courageously
for sacred ideals.

O blow ye evil winds
into my body's fire
my soul you'll never unravel.

Even though disappointed a thousand times
or fallen in the fight
and everything would worthless seem,

I have lived amidst eternity --
Be grateful, my soul --
My life was worth living.

He who was pressed from all sides
but remained victorious in spirit
is welcomed into the choir of heroes.

He who overcame the fetters
giving wings to his mind
is entering into the golden age of
the victorious.” more

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Emily Dickinson: “Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God's residence is next to mine,
His furniture is love.”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
And only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.”

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Emily Dickinson: “My life closed twice before its close;
    It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
    A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
    As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
    And all we need of hell.”

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Emily Dickinson: “Heaven is so far of the Mind
That were the Mind dissolved—
The Site—of it—by Architect
Could not again be proved— 'Tis vast—as our Capacity—
As fair—as our idea—
To Him of adequate desire
No further 'tis, than Here—”

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Emily Dickinson: “What is -- ‘Paradise’ --
Who live there --
Are they ‘Farmers’ --
Do they ‘hoe’ --
Do they know that this is ‘Amherst’ --
And that I -- am coming -- too --

Do they wear ‘new shoes’ -- in ‘Eden’ --
Is it always pleasant -- there --
Won’t they scold us -- when we’re homesick --
Or tell God -- how cross we are --

You are sure there’s such a person
As ‘a Father’ -- in the sky --
So if I get lost -- there -- ever --
Or do what the Nurse calls ‘die’ --
I shan’t walk the ‘Jasper’ -- barefoot --
Ransomed folks -- won’t laugh at me --
Maybe -- ‘Eden’ a’n’t so lonesome
As New England used to be!”

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Emily Dickinson: “Why -- do they shut Me out of Heaven?
Did I sing -- too loud?
But -- I can say a little ‘Minor’
Timid as a Bird!

Wouldn't the Angels try me --
Just -- once -- more --
Just -- see -- if I troubled them --
But don't -- shut the door!

Oh, if I -- were the Gentleman
In the ‘White Robe’ --
And they -- were the little Hand -- that knocked --
Could -- I -- forbid?”

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Ecclesiastes: “For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.” more

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Amy Tan: “I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”

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Robert Heinlein: “How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.”

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Rabbi Zusya: “In the world to come, I shall not be asked, 'Why were you not Moses?' I shall be asked, 'Why were you not Zusya?'”

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Robert G. Ingersoll: “Love is the only bow on life's dark cloud.
It is the Morning and the Evening Star.
It shines upon the cradle of the babe,
and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb.
It is the mother of Art,
inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home,
kindler of every fire on every hearth.
It was the first to dream of immortality.
It fills the world with melody,
for Music is the voice of Love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter,
that changes worthless things to joy,
and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.
It is the perfume of the wondrous flower -- the heart
and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon,
we are less than beasts;
but with it, earth is heaven
and we are gods.”

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Ambrose Bierce: “Heaven, n.: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.” more

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Albert Einstein: “I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.”

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Robert G. Ingersoll: “Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.”

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