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The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a… — Benjamin Franklin
I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many people do simply… — Steven Weinberg
True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in… — Daniel Dennett
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them… — Baruch Spinoza
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas.… — T. Boone Pickens
We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change… — Grace Lee Boggs
I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate… — Wayne Dyer
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects… — Blaise Pascal
If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to… — Thomas Aquinas
Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known,… — Frederick Soddy
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists… — Thomas Kuhn
I've never needed a lobbyist personally to put my case. I'd rather put my case myself. But I don't understand how other people look at… — Clive Palmer
eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done without the Web.… — Meg Whitman
Whatever anybody believes as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else, it's fair enough, and works, and I think, is real, and matters. I don't… — George Clooney
Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would… — Max Born
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits… — Gottfried Leibniz
Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He… — Alexis Carrel
No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening. — Vanessa Paradis

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