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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

Salman Rushdie

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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Education Learning Lesson Oneself Teaching Thinking
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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Ability Courage Language Talk Thinking True
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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Dreams Evil Fantasy Goodness Greatness Home Journey Man
What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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Country Evidence Hate Power Recover Thinking World
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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Bed Frame Hang Home Notice Shame Wall
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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Constitution Freedom Religious Right Talk
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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Believe Direction Myself
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Himself Magic Reality World

Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

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