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Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

Sam Harris

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
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Fact Reality Statement Work
From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.
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Freedom Love Point View
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
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Ignorance Knowledge Production Religious Scripture Secularism
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
It’s simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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Frame Moral Religion True Universe
If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won’t matter how successful you become or who is in your life – you won’t enjoy any of it.
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Angry Confusion Depression Enjoyment Life Success Yourself
You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don’t like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.
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Argument Change Happiness Privacy Yourself
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
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
As a man believes, so he will act.
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Act Believe Himself Man
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.
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Creation Enough God Man Moments
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.
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Atheist Live Philosophy Principle Unfortunate World
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
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Evidence History Human Myself Society
This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.
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Believe Ourselves Perfection Religion True
Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.
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Believe Creation Earth Invention Science
Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.
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Freedom Learning Limitation Society Tolerance

Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

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