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Tag Name "Atheism" (2509)

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Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon
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The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?
Emily Dickinson
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Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.
Mark Thomas
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Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men have elaborated an explanation for their situation in life... Their rationales are endowed with moral qualities.
Robert E Lane
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People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.
Victor J. Stenger
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.
James Buchanan
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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
Lance Armstrong
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It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.
J. William Fulbright
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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
Jean de la Bruyere
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I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.
Matt Stone
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Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.
George Carlin
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
H. L. Mencken
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[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
Bertrand Russell
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To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.
Confucius
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Sometimes they reasoned thus: The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing. At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: Such a thing has happened to Jesus now Jesus is the Messiah therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah.
Ernest Renan
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Billy Sunday
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Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies that somebody falsely claims the right to tolerate. Toleration is a concession, while liberty is a right. Toleration is a matter of expediency, while liberty is a matter of principle.
George W Truett
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Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.
Richard A. Proctor
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Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to be any longer required, either for enabling us to know what is right and wrong in social morality, or for supplying us with motives to do right and to abstain from wrong.
John Stuart Mill
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All three of our major religions in Britain ~ Christianity, Islam and Judaism - have a hateful idea at the very core. That idea is Exclusion: the othering, if you like, of the unredeemed.
Matthew Parris
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