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The men in my life have always been the folks who are wary of using the word 'love' lightly. They ar...

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Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, bu...

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Charles BradlaughThe Freethinker's Text-Book: Man: Whence and How? Religion: What and Why?

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The obvious definition of a monarchy seems to be that of a state, in which a single person, by whats...

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Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I

Most people are afflicted with an inability to say what they see or think. They say there’s nothing ...

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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if ...

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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must ent...

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Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My po...

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Julian JaynesThe Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me...

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How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I ...

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Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambi...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

There’s a fascinating frailty of the human mind that psychologists know all about, called “argument ...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their ...

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We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.