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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. Where once it…
- MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God.…
- Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing…
- No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or…
- Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked…
- Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became the only recognized…
- I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to make sure of…
- I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth,…
- The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.
- A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie…
- There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild,…
- Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible…
- You can only have one aim per debate.
- Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
- Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
- 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group…
- You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous…
- I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite…
- You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized…
- Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time…
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- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle