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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.

Daniel Dennett

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
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
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
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
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
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Believe God Goodness Reason
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
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
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Afraid Cure Fantasy Hope Information Myself
I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it’s art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I’d like to add a little to that goodness.
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Different Enjoyment Goodness Love Myself See World
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Admit Atheist President
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
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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Care Knowledge Yourself
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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Dangerous Force Fundamental Planet
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Conscious Human Mystery Survive

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