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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

Isaac Asimov

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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Believe Boredom Fear Heaven Hell Life Myself Thinking
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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Confidence Myself Right Wrong
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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Different Earth Humanity Nation Security
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Bad Goodness Law Taste Yourself
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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