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“Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.”

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“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.”

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“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so clear to me. If you care to imagine what any inadequate or cruel man might do, given unlimited power over a woman, then anything that you can bring yourself to suspect was what became routine in…

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It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them…

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To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

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[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a divine punishment or the hope of a divine reward.…

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“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,…

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It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

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Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug…

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There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

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“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and Cambridge universities. One of the most celebrated victims of this theocratic policy was Shelley (1792-1811) who was expelled from University College, Oxford, for writing a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism. He and his poetry were much influenced…

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Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men…

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It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't…

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24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an…

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Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.

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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

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Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is…

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Muslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think we need…

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The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties without diplomatic subtlety and finesse. All that does not change the fact that American capitalism operates according to the same laws as the others, is confronted with the same…

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All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find that we have adapted a religion strikingly similar to many traditional faiths. Change "mathematics" to "God" and little else might seem to change. The problem of human contact with some spiritual realm, of timelessness, of…

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None of my counterparts in Europe interferes in politics.

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I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they're women, they're in positions because they're intelligent and they…

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