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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.

Daniel Dennett

As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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Destruction Enemy Hit Mindset Panic Worst Yourself
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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Natural Religion Social System
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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Care Knowledge Yourself
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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Goodness Hide Mistake Trick Yourself
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
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
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
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Alone Children Desert Empathy
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
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
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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Hold Life Paint Philosophy
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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Achievement Concern Ethics Mathematics Problem Science System
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
YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Build Ourselves Robot Soul
I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I would place higher. I would not want to live in a world without love.
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Love Myself People Rate Thinking

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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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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