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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
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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Certain Doubt Embrace Mark Maturity Outcome Prepare Science Therefore
Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
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Dinner Table Good Guest Humanism Philosophy
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
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
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
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
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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Back Believe Chaplain List Question Reading School Went
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
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton’s head.
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Bible Fall Genesis Head Putting Science Secular Together Writing
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
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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Cause End Fearing Giving Happen Lying Regret World Worth
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
Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
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Atheism Brainwash Erase Religion Survive Young
Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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Electricity House Lighting Prayer Trying Work

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