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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Richard Dawkins

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Discourage Faith Inquiry Meme Rational Unconsicious
The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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Deep Dinner Fox Life Rabbit Run
Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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Decision Ideas Life Stop Trick
Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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Cause Grasp Human Reality Suffering Tool Word
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Argument
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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Against Religion Satisfaction Teaching Understand World
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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Biology Evolution Fact History Ignorant Science
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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People Religion True Wise
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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Capable Evolution Existence Principle Selection Theory
Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Confusion Fun Myth Truth
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Against Childhood Crime Religion Satisfaction
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Stop Truth Unfortunately
Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Magic Reality Science
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Beautiful Puzzle Solution

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

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