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Charles Stross I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.
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Charles Stross I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever – was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.
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Alan Watts Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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Alan Alda I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
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Edmond de Goncourt If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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David Hume A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion
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Kurt Vonnegut If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.
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Bill O'Reilly It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an Atheist
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Charles Caleb Colton Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.
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Charles Caleb Colton Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Charles Caleb Colton Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
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Charles Dickens The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them
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Charles Dickens That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay
children pride men
Charles Dickens Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
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Charles Dickens He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.
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Charles Dickens "A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."
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Charles Dickens I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
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Charles Dickens Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
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Charles Spurgeon Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original
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Charles Spurgeon The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.
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Alan Watts A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
trying world
Alan Watts But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
trying way hurrying
Alan Watts Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Alan Parsons That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
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Alan Moore I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.
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Alan Ball I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.