![More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for kindly behaviour, the results may be needlessly unfortunate. That is why it is important to show that no supernatural reasons are needed to make [people] kind and to prove that only through kindness can the human race achieve happiness.](/assets/img/quote-photos/more-and-more-people-are-becoming-unable-to-accept-traditional-religious-belief.jpg)
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At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. Richard Paul Evans
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No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race. Richard P. Feynman
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He killed everyone with kindness at all times.
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I think it's an even more macho thing to come out and talk about that kind of stuff. David Bowens
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It could get tiresome, ... It kind of wore on me. Corey Dillon
kindness problem reveal
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kindness wild
It got kind of wild there at the end.
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He was kind enough to take me under his wing. Alan Thicke
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I don't have any quarrel with sending written questions or submitting whatever kind of testimony they want over there are the White House. That's up to the president, John Glenn
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I don't know what kind of reception we'll get,
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As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect.
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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. William James
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Who can blind lover's eyes? Virgil
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We can't all do everything.
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Fury itself supplies arms.
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Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
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The medicine increases the disease.
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O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!