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Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely… — Richard Dawkins
I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept. — Samuel Richardson
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. — Charles Dudley Warner
The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More… — Thomas Jefferson
Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands… — Thomas Jefferson
The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity… — Thomas Jefferson
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives. — Robert McNamara
This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief. — Adolf Hitler
I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what… — Mike Huckabee
There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never… — Richard Dawkins
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo… — Richard Dawkins
There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant… — James Madison
What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be… — Francis Crick
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
Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they… — Bertrand Russell
The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely… — C.S. Lewis
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
One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided… — Arthur C. Clarke
How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy… — Bill Hicks
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.. — Robert Green Ingersoll
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
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of… — Thomas Paine
If you were dealing with the accumulated repressions of only one lifetime, it would be different. But these are the repressions of numerous lives. Nobody… — Rajneesh
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters… — Piet Mondrian

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