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- I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music or…
- There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
- In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius…
- I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of…
- Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious — not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such…
- It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore…
- Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
- Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
- Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
- Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with…
- People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We are…
- Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have…
- You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the…
- If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have…
- Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture.…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes