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Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.

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Sam Harris
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 9
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Samuel Benjamin Harris
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Hope is easy knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe.
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