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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on…
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has…
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending…
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share…
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims…
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love,…
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in…
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,…
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You…
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding…
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned…
— Unknown Author
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important.…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making…
— Daniel Tosh
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But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything…
— Hugh MacLennan
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I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead…
— Bettie Page
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Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack.…
— Bill Watterson
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After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.
— Robert Breault
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I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
— Agnes Denes
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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this…
— Bertrand Russell
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