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Sam Harris

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
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Atheist Better Conversation Space
Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.
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Atheist Care Existence God Imagination Stop Wisdom Yourself
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don’t have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
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Boundary Human Ourselves Politics Science Thinking Transcendence
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
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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Argument Civilization Production Representation Tradition
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
When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn’t. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.
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Honesty Imagination Integrity Intellectual Religion Standard Truth Yourself
If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
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Argument Evidence Logic Prove Value Yourself
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.
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Activity Education Fast Man Survive Woman World
An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse — and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.
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Arrogance Church
A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
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Freedom Himself Love
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
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
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
The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.
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Death Philosophy Simplicity Truth

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