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Sam Harris

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
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Appearance Atheist Fantasy Life Reality Shame Touch
Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I’m simply worried.
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Assure Myself Offend Simplicity Worry
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
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Evidence Hall Ourselves People Power Society Strong
It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.
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Open Ourselves Time World
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.
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Activity Education Fast Man Survive Woman World
Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
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Abusive God Kill People Name Oppression Reading
The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.
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Habit Mercy Moments Ourselves Wake Up
Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.
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Man Measurement Miracle Mystery Name Worth
We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
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Difference Goodness Natural Ourselves Reminder
How we pay attention to the present moment…determin es the character of our experience and…the quality of our lives.
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Attention Live Moments Ourselves Pay Present Quality
The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
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Evidence Faith Religion
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
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Correct Faith Human Ignorance Possible Religious
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
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Evidence History Human Myself Society
When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don’t believe as you do.
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Belief Believe Difference God Impossible Name Respect Right Suffering
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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Collaboration End Evidence Human Open Ourselves Security World
Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.
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Believe Creation Earth Invention Science

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