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- There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
- I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order…
- 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…
- I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I…
- The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
- In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
- People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.
- We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their…
- If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
- The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of…
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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
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams