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Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
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We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.
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