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religious style looks
Rob Sheffield Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.
religious thinking opposites
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.
religious giving-up children
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.
religious atheist atheism
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.
religious strong political
Richard Whately A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
religious hero character
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.
religious integrity patriotic
Roger Babson Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.
religious errors grace
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.
atheist criterion success
Robert Lewis It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right
atheist philosophy atheism
Richard K. Morgan A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
atheist thinking self
Richard Dawkins 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 stress views
Richard Dawkins Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible with magic, but that also is not worth stressing. What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading.
atheist religion atheism
Richard Dawkins Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
atheist believe kyoto
Richard Dawkins I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
atheist belief results
Richard Dawkins Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
atheist this-life
Richard Dawkins Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
atheist real lying
Vladimir Lenin Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth!
reality shadow substance
Richard Whately Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.
reality doors stage
Russell Hoban If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.
reality years solitude
Russell Banks It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.
reality people action
William S. Burroughs The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.
reality way faces
William S. Burroughs The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
reality men world
Virginia Woolf If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women...
reality giving actors
Viola Spolin General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.
reality people different
Wong Kar-wai People are very surprised when they come to Hong Kong after seeing my films, because my version of it is quite different than Hong Kong in reality.
reality seductive fantasy
Woody Allen Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble.