"Of course, the liar often imagines that he……" — Sam Harris
"Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected."
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146 Quotes by Sam Harris
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could…
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious…
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken…
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its…
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and…
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions,…
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is…
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception…
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political…
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and…
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin…
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
— Hannah Arendt
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
— Mary Kay Ash
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform…
— Rowan Atkinson
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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
— David Attenborough
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster…
— David Attenborough
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's…
— Margaret Atwood
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history…
— Joe Baca
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I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
— Kevin Bacon
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