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Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it…
— John Lennox
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(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic Park…
— Carl Sagan
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If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we…
— Surya Das
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First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great
— Alyssa Milano
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Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical attitude. Buddha himself…
— Dalai Lama
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Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your…
— Mark McCumber
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War takes people's lives and destroys property, but it does not resolve the world's problems. If anything is achieved through war, it is to plant…
— Bruce Van Voorhis
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Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he…
— Sholem Asch
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I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of…
— Pinchas Lapide
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them…
— William Tyndale
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We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like,…
— Hank Green
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Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they…
— Carl Sagan
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Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to…
— Roger Casement
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If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we…
— Carter Heyward
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The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.
— Rigoberta Menchu
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Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.
— Ann Northrop
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It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will…
— Ousmane Sembene
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I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated…
— Oscar Arias
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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