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In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not...more

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The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are willing to sacrifice even the sligh...more

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A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of ...more

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It's not always a question of you changing your mind. I think very often your mind changes you. You suddenly realise that without having intended to t...more

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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe mo...more

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I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

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You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet that is still cooling and w...more

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Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand repo...more

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We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purge...more

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Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority ...more

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It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'. There may be t...more

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Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abje...more

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We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the cont...more

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So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been ...more

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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?