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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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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public…
— Norman Angell
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One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
— Unknown Author
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Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
— Vernon Howard
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused,…
— Dean Koontz
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The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
— Robert Penn Warren
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... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other…
— Anna Quindlen
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Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Alan Paul plunges into Chinese life and takes us along for the ride, through vegetable markets, used-car lots, Taoist temples, divey bars,…
— Peter Hessler
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When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you,…
— Carl Rogers
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Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures,…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to…
— George Saunders
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It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear…
— Carl Rogers
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