"The president of the United States has claimed,……" — Sam Harris
"The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive."
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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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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
— Jacques Barzun
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It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there…
— Mortimer Adler
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The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door…
— Dan Brown
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I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.
— Tony Campolo
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It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.
— Celso Amorim
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The vision of an ag park set forth in the BioCrossroads report includes livestock, ... In addition, the vision of…
— Thurman Munson
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I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement,…
— Jan C. Ting
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The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities…
— Donald Bradman
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The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different;…
— Dan Jenkins
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
— Walter Hagen
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