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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

A.C. Grayling

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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Failure Habit Mark Stereotype Wise World
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
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Fly Idea Ideas Over Reading Share Soar Terrain History Human View Views Vintage
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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Age Broad Defined Middle Mind Narrow Place Waist
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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Children Exist Human Intelligence Men Nature Product Two Unnatural
…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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Emotion Fundamental Life Mastery Virtuous
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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Human Life Lifespan Long Month Need Think Live Thinking Thousand Time
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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Believe Faith Ingenuous More People Reflect Reflection
To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason – to believe something by faith – is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.
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Believe Evidence Face Faith Ignorant Ignore Irresponsible Merit Opposites Reason Respect Something
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
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Cart Eccentric Little Live Modern Motorway Pedestrian Place Room Society Way
It doesn’t have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being – Everything is full of wonder.
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Atheist Canyon City Face Grand Human Being Street
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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Age Believe Exactly Fairies Goblin God Reason
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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Anxiety Hesitate Increase Lurid Media Order Sale Social Whip
Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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Electricity House Lighting Prayer Trying Work
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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Altering Depend Desire Experience Look People Science Tree
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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Happy Latest Misuse Night Religious Return Technology World
When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?
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