Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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Look at the blogosphere – the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.
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Religion and science have a common ancestor – ignorance.
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The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
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…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
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It takes a certain ingenuous faith – but I have it – to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
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And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
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If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.
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Nothing is truly unnatural, because everything that exists, including human intelligence, is a product of nature. If human intelligence can devise ways for the genes from two men to result in a child, their doing so is an entirely natural event.
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