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atheist criterion success
It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right Robert Lewis
atheist became hated seemed time
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick. Julia Sweeney
atheist drama struggle
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama. Richard P. Feynman
atheist philosophy atheism
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. Richard K. Morgan
atheist understanding religion
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it. Richard Dawkins
atheist powerful islands
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?
atheist atheism bother
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
atheist thinking self
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.
atheist cat thinking
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
wish
He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while. Mark Richt
wish pianist ifs
If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something. Woody Allen
wish care enough
If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly. William James
wish faces impossible
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody. Roald Dahl
wish impossible holes
In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it. Robert Smith
wish my-sister candle
My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true Sara Shepard
wish next anticipation
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. Samuel Johnson
wish literature beginning-middle-and-end
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
wish alternatives life-is
Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living. Saul Bellow
culture easy good travelling understand
I think it's a good idea. They have the same culture, understand each other and travelling is easy between countries. So why not? Lennart Johansson
culture disaster failure fans manner outside root sadly seen strike unless wait
In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.
cultures literacy music origins poetry remembers tribal word
There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. Edward Hirsch
culture kids particular point reflected responding technology today toys
Historically, toys have always reflected our culture at any particular point in time, ... Today we live in a high-tech world, where technology is being used by kids even at a very young age. Toymakers are responding to that trend.
culture definitely football impacts looking people start
I think the culture is always going to be a football culture, as we well know. But I think this definitely impacts the way people are going to start looking at us. Al Horford
culture foremost gem lake opportunity promote recreation
Lake Champlain is the most under-marketed gem of a resource. First and foremost I want to use this as an opportunity to promote the history, culture and recreation of Lake Champlain.
culture educate gambling players pro
We take this seriously. The pro gambling culture is something we educate our players about extensively.
culture world urban
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system. Salman Rushdie
culture protect norm
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. Robert M. Pirsig