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religion atheism cosmos
Richard Dawkins Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
religion firsts needs
William James Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.
religion needs heavenly
William Cowper Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.
religion unhappy dangerous
Robert Southey Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.
religion atheism firsts
Sandra Day O'Connor (W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
religion gone disunity
Neale Donald Walsch Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity.
religion easier dies
Jorge Luis Borges To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
religion
Jonathan Swift What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.
islamic obviously regimes sold
Mohamed ElBaradei You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.
islam rest versus
David Perry It is Islam versus the rest of the world,
islamic reformation
Reza Aslan The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.
islamic years europe
Reza Aslan Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.
islamic years idols
Reza Aslan It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.
islamic thinking iraq
William Kristol And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.
islam mein-kampf nazism
Richard Dawkins Of course you can have an opinion about Islam without having read Qur'an. You don't have to read Mein Kampf to have an opinion about Nazism.
islam world growing
Salman Rushdie This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
islam culture weapons
Salman Rushdie I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom.... Actually Existing Islam ... which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.
different use want
Richard P. Feynman For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
different
Richelle Mead Every relationship is different. Everyone loves differently.
different agonizing realizing
Richelle Mead It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.
different married monk
Russell Brand When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.
different reason feels
Rose McIver The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.
different kind realizing
Troye Sivan I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.
different attention bears
William Gibson If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.
different would-be feels
William Faulkner It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.
different texture tissues
Werner Heisenberg The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.