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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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Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This…
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The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a…
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If we reduce batch sizes by half, we also reduce by half the time it will take to process a batch. That…
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When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do…
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(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth…
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Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence…
— Julio Cortazar
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All the general fear I've been feeling condenses into an immediate fear of this girl, this predator who might kill me in…
— Suzanne Collins
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Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single…
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For God's sake, Stiff," he says. "You don't have to follow me," I say staring at the maze of bars above me.…
— Veronica Roth
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We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the…
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