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.
SAM HARRISA puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
More Sam Harris Quotes
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The problem with religion, because it’s been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
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Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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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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George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.
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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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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the false to achieve primacy over the facts.
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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
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If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?
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It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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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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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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