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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.

Christopher Hitchens

The gods that we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a species that’s about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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Expectation God Species
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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Politics Religious Secularism Simplicity Truth
The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
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God Instruction Man Prayer Right Thinking Yourself
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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Certain Divine Infant Ourselves Person
I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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Humor Possible Thinking Tragedy
The finest fury is the most controlled.
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Angry Control Fine
Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Argument Enough Faith Time Wasted Time
We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
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Discover Inspirational Live Religion World
The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.
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Discover Escape God Greatness Oneself
Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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Argument Explanation
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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Happiness Risk Thinking Truth Way Yourself
I’m a member of no party. I have no ideology. I’m a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that’s all around us.
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Member Myself Party Science Struggle
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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Country Day Escape Present
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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Decent Human Religion
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
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Anxiety Dangerous End Escape History Search Society
The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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Book Holy Human Togetherness

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