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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

Daniel Dennett

Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Evolution Internet Organization Phone Revolution Selection
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Believe God Goodness Reason
I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.
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Agency Animal Culture Moral See Thinking
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
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
You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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Believe Seminar Yourself
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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Believe God People Religious
It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
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Brain Ourselves
The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.
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Brain Depend Human Mindset Place Reach
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
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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Hold Life Paint Philosophy
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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Achievement Concern Ethics Mathematics Problem Science System
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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Dedication Happiness Life Secret Yourself

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

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