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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.

Richard Dawkins

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Against Country Honesty Intelligence Opportunity Politics
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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Life Reality Religion
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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Blind Book Evidence Mind People Religious Revelation Switch Want
Science is the poetry of reality.
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One Liner Poetry Reality Science
Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Comparison Evil Faith Greatness Virus World
If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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Biology Children Expectation Human Moral Nature Teaching
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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Blind Design Evil Expectation Indifference Observe Property Universe
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Stop Truth Unfortunately
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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Born Die Lucky People
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Atheist Believe God Humanity
Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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Brain Complex Conscious Model World
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Arrogance Clarity Mistake One Liner
Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Confusion Fun Myth Truth
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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Belief Evade Evaluate Evidence Excuse Faith Ignorance
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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Life Responsiblity
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Essence Life Probable Science

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