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- Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence.…
- 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…
- We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided…
- It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play…
- Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts,…
- I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.
- It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that…
- The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
- '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…
- Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they…
- Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win…
- The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of…
- Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
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