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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion. Vincent Bugliosi
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. C. S. Lewis
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
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In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us. Carl Reiner
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At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. Carl Sagan
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An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God.
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Sadly, I have found that even evolution's most staunch believers are afraid to debate, because they know that their case for atheism and evolution is less than extremely weak. Ray Comfort
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Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a Creator and a Maker. Neither are you supposed to let out that the essence of atheism is to believe that nothing created everything, because it's unthinking.
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What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem. Bertrand Russell
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It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. Maurice Maeterlinck
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As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life. C. Wright Mills
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The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power. Charles Caleb Colton
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Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism. Charles Spurgeon
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The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance. Timothy Noah
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I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw. Irving Stone
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack. Zack Snyder
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The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.' Warren Farrell
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It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are. William John Wills
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When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path. Virginia Postrel
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Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life. Billy Graham
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I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough. Clotilde Hesme
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Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.