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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 impact political
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo word carrying frissons of hysterical phobia. Critical mass may be harder to achieve than with some non-confrontational euphemism, but if we did achieve it with the dread word atheist, the political impact would be all the greater.
atheist believe teeth
The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
opposites walks setting
Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.
opposites funny-things envy
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you. Robert M. Pirsig
opposites done information
The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.
opposites waiting wish
Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something. Sarah Dessen
opposites giving actors
Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better. Sandra Bullock
opposites want moments
I don't want to not enjoy where I am at this very moment. So, every time I plan something the exact opposite happens. I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.
opposites people way
It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road. Rory Bremner
opposites choices despair
The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. Warren G. Bennis
opposites race earth
It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam. Saint Augustine
stranger
I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me. John Abraham
strange-places cards credit
Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out. Renny Harlin
strange accepted strangeness
Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness. Rose Macaulay
stranger
You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend. Truman Capote
strange-places goldfish giants
Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish. Rick Riordan
stranger wanted own-business
I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going. Sara Blakely
strange folly just-one
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks. William Faulkner
stranger
There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers. Richard Rodriguez
strange married wells
Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all. William Congreve