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Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a good bet that there would be no suicide bombers.
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We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
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