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Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.

Daniel Dennett

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
DANIEL DENNETT

Admit Atheist President
The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness – by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.
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Best Creation Goodness Place Thankful
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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Believe God People Religious
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Believe God Goodness Reason
The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Effect Mindset Science
You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
DANIEL DENNETT

Believe Seminar Yourself
A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Library Scholar Way
There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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Life Polite Religious Wasted Time Yourself
The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.
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Evidence Life Science Subject
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
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 problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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Achievement Concern Ethics Mathematics Problem Science System
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves
Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn’t kept pace.
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Moral Ourselves Technology Understand
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution 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

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.

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Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.

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