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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.

Richard Dawkins

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Amount Beyond Decent Natural Suffering World
Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Brain Deep Drop Open Minded
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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Advocate Ban Religion Tolerance
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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People Religion True Wise
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Born Generosity Selfish
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Arrogance Clarity Mistake One Liner
Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Express Ignorance One Liner Word
The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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Chicken Egg Revolution Science
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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Acceptance Ignorance Literature Mathematics Science
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Exploit Individual Ready Selfish System
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Disguise Inspection Selfish
Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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Disturb Finding Matter People Place Reality Togetherness
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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Intensity Opinion Truth
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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Atheist Creation God Knowledge Science Seek Truth Understand
The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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Deep Dinner Fox Life Rabbit Run

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