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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

Sam Harris

It is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.
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Belief Difficult Heart Imagination Lying Mental Religious Tradition
Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath–and the God of Nature too. If you can’t see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.
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Eyes God Nature Ourselves Reality World
A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
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Freedom Himself Love
We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself.
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Civilization Cultural Faith Greatness Ourselves Problem Religious
An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion (e.g., Scientists are smart; smart people do not make mistakes; therefore, scientists do not make mistakes).
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Argument Assumption Fake Leadership Logic Mistake Science
Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.
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Man Measurement Miracle Mystery Name Worth
We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
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Difference Goodness Natural Ourselves Reminder
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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Intellectual Public Reason Science Time
Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
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Bad Born Ideas Mom Moments Religion
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Atheist Better Conversation Space
What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about ‘right’ and ‘wrong,’ or ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?
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Goodness Imporatant Lose World Worry
It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.
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Book Ordinary Product Value
The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.
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Fact Myself Reason Rejection Thinking
As a man believes, so he will act.
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Act Believe Himself Man
The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
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Cleaning Infrastructure Live Research Science
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
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Correct Faith Human Ignorance Possible Religious

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