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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Richard Dawkins

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Change Thinking True
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Evidence Prejudice Private Public replace Science
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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Capable Evolution Existence Principle Selection Theory
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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Children Education Evidence Thinking
Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Brain Deep Drop Open Minded
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Against Childhood Crime Religion Satisfaction
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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Encouragement Evolution Teaching Theory
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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Born Die Lucky People
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
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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Children Dangerous Deliberate Faith Innocent Vulnerable Wrong
Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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Cause Grasp Human Reality Suffering Tool Word
Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Atheist Freedom Happiness Live Proper
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Belief Justice Misery Object Science World
It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Deep Deliver Music Passion Poetry Rank
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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Adult Alteration Control Development Evolution Program
The less you think, the more you believe.
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Believe Minimalism One Liner Thinking

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