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Rob Sheffield Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.
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Richard Dawkins If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.
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Richard Dawkins I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.
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Richard Dawkins Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.
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Richard Whately A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
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Russell Crowe I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood.
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Roger Babson Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.
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Tryon Edwards The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.
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Jason Statham I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.
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Kerry Nelson Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.
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Britt Ekland I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.
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John Romano Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.
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Tony Buzan All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.
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Sugata Mitra It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.
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Sugata Mitra In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
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Sugata Mitra If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.
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Ann Veneman There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.
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Richard Holbrooke The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
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Townsend Harris If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
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Townsend Harris The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
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Townsend Harris The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
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Rick Riordan Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.
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Rick Riordan When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?
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Rick Riordan Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness
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Rick Riordan I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously
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Raymond Chandler She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.