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Words are memes that can be pronounced.

Daniel Dennett

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
Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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Cost Law Object Science See
We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be “informavores”, epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
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Decision Future Improvement Live Open World
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.
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Advertisement Better Religion Subtract Yourself
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
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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Dedication Happiness Life Secret Yourself
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Admit Atheist President
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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Competition Consider Mindset Possible
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
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Belief Believe God Ground Imagination Science
Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
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Blind Love Resolution Suffering Tragedy
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
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Architecture Greatness Harm Music Pay Treasure
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 haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.
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Brain Depend Human Mindset Place Reach
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
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.
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Condition Freedom Human Mistake Objection Oneself

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