"The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing,……" — Richard Dawkins
"The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something."
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530 Quotes by Richard Dawkins
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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose…
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so…
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
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Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting…
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons…
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
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Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you…
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Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing…
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Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something.
— Louise Hay
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It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons…
— Medea Benjamin
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Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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If homosexuality is not caused by genetic factors...then that means it can be acquired... And if it can be acquired,…
— Scott Lively
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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one…
— Willis Harman
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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has…
— Vaclav Havel
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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
— Jane Fonda
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Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a…
— Emily Blunt
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I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps…
— Brian Evenson
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