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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.

Daniel Dennett

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
DANIEL DENNETT

Dedication Happiness Life Secret Yourself
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
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Fair Ignorance Learning Myself Process Reading Writing
No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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Easy Smart Way Yourself
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Believe God Goodness Reason
As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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Destruction Enemy Hit Mindset Panic Worst Yourself
There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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Dedication Illusion People Polite Simplicity
If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
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Better Myself Time Yourself
You don’t get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
DANIEL DENNETT

Advertisement Better Religion Subtract Yourself
I don’t think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.
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Myself Religious Respond Revive See Thinking Writing
A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Library Scholar Way
The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Effect Mindset Science
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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Hold Life Paint Philosophy
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.
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Imagination Live Mystery Ourselves Philosophy
Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Direction Ideas Natural People Tradition

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