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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.

Daniel Dennett

Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
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Blind Love Resolution Suffering Tragedy
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Conscious Human Mystery Survive
YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Build Ourselves Robot Soul
There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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Dedication Illusion People Polite Simplicity
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
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Fair Ignorance Learning Myself Process Reading Writing
Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
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Belief Believe God Ground Imagination Science
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about – about what the issues really are – and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
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Contribution Destination Philosophy Quite Recognition Talk
I’m the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.
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Color Criticism Deny Experience Myself Pain People Repeat
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Dreams Imagination Knowledge Yourself
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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Behavior Polite Rude Time Yourself
There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
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Care Complete Guide Knowledge Limitation Yourself
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
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Architecture Greatness Harm Music Pay Treasure
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Believe God Goodness Reason
Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them – if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
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Clear Detail Mistake Risk Time Yourself
The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness – by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.
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Best Creation Goodness Place Thankful
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves

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