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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.

Daniel Dennett

Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Direction Ideas Natural People Tradition
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Conscious Human Mystery Survive
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Dreams Imagination Knowledge Yourself
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
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
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
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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Cost Law Object Science See
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
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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Behavior Polite Rude Time Yourself
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
You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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Believe Seminar Yourself
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Admit Atheist President
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
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself
There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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Dedication Illusion People Polite Simplicity

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