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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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There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
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Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
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An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of…
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If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
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For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the…
— James A. Garfield
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Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the…
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The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost…
— James Madison
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The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,…
— H. L. Mencken
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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but…
— Unknown Author
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Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.
— William H. Hastie
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Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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