Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out … - Richard Dawkins

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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up. He has no discipline.

Richard Dawkins

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

Argue, Arguing, Disagreements, Fighting, Philosopher, Seek

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Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Faith, Definitions, Belief, Reason, Evidence, Delusion

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to be born. The number of people who could be here, in my place, out number the sand grains in the Sahara. If you think about all the different ways in which our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here. The number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist. . . we are privileged to be alive and nd we should make the most of our time on this world.

Alive, Grains, Inspirational, Ones, Order, Thinking

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George Meredith

On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose, Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend. . . He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

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Oswald Chambers

When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in your life. And you cannot imitate the nature of Jesus-it is either in you or it is not. A personal insult becomes an opportunity for a saint to reveal the incredible sweetness of the Lord Jesus.

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Barry Goldwater

The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up. He has no discipline.

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Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God, that religion would be perfect in whole and in part, and would be as perfect at the first moment of its revelation as after ten thousand years of practice. There has never been a religion which fulfills those conditions.

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