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Sam Harris

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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Friendship Love Oneself Person Suffering Time World
The power of psychedelics is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.
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Life Power Reveal Science Time Understand
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
Words like ‘God’ and ‘Allah’ must go the way of ‘Apollo’ and ‘Baal’ or they will unmake our world.
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God Ourselves Word World
It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potential.
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Action Belief Potential Privacy Time
The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.
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Freedom Hide Kill Lost Thinking
Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
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Bad Born Ideas Mom Moments Religion
The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.
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Current Hold Holy Thinking
Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.
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Accountability Chance Determination Prior Responsibility Willing
We are all prisoners of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Prison Thinking
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
I’m the Ted Bundy of string theory.
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String Theory
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
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
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
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

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