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    “The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.”
    ― Sydney J. Harris
    tags: nationalism, patriotism, war
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    “Ninety percent of what we believe has nothing to do with the process of thought, but comes instead from the four sources of family inheritance, individual temperament, national culture, and economic self-interest; and while we cannot wholly cast off these shackles, we should at least recognize their cramping and distorting influence upon the free process of thought.”
    ― Sydney J. Harris
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    “The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.”
    ― Sydney J. Harris
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    “The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.”
    ― Sydney J. Harris
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    “At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.”
    ― Sydney J. Harris
    tags: children, learning, school, teachers, teaching
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  • #6
    Steven Weinberg
    “One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.”
    ― Steven Weinberg
    tags: accomplishment, religious, science
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    Steven Weinberg
    “Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed him to justify slavery as the punishment of the children of Ham. Mark Twain described his mother as a genuinely good person, whose soft heart pitied even Satan, but who had no doubt about the legitimacy of slavery, because in years of living in antebellum Missouri she had never heard any sermon opposing slavery, but only countless sermons preaching that slavery was God's will. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion.”
    ― Steven Weinberg
    tags: ethics, frederick-douglass, mark-twain, morality, slavery, superstition
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    Steven Weinberg
    “The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. ”
    ― Steven Weinberg
    tags: research, science, tragedy
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  • #9
    Steven Weinberg
    “All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically”
    ― Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for The Fundamental Laws of Nature
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    Steven Weinberg
    “Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
    But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
    ― Steven Weinberg
    tags: religion
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  • #11
    Steven Weinberg
    “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
    ― Steven Weinberg
    tags: atheism, bible, god, religion
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    Steven Weinberg
    “I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.”
    ― Steven Weinberg
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  • #13
    Steven Weinberg
    “I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because it's not really that intense or even that serious, but just... you know after a while you get tired of hearing clergymen giving the invocation at various public celebrations and you feel, haven't we outgrown all this? Do we have to listen to this?”
    ― Steven Weinberg
    tags: belief, childish, europe, offense, pointless, superstition, tradition
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    Steven Weinberg
    “Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”
    ― Steven Weinberg
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    Steven Weinberg
    “I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.”
    ― Steven Weinberg
    tags: abdus-salam, islam, muslim, nobel-laureate, religion, science, technology, universities
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  • #16
    Christopher Hitchens
    “Take the risk of thinking for yourself , much more happiness , truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way ..”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
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  • #17
    Tim Minchin
    “You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.”
    ― Tim Minchin
    tags: alternative-medicine, humor, pseudoscience, quackery, scepticism
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  • #18
    Christopher Hitchens
    “What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
    tags: atheism, dislikes, racism, religion, scepticism, stupidity, superstition
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  • #19
    Douglas Adams
    “Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: advice, belief, internet, net, paradox, scepticism
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  • #20
    Richard Lederer
    “There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.”
    ― Richard Lederer, Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language
    tags: christianity, dark-age, history, medieval, middle-ages, religion, scepticism
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  • #21
    “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
    ― Stephen Roberts
    tags: atheism, belief, deism, religion, scepticism
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  • #22
    Adebowale Ojowuro
    “The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome.”
    ― Adebowale Babatunde Ojowuro, Echoes of Common Sense
    tags: atheism, ethics-and-moral-philosophy, freethought, new-book, religion, scepticism
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  • #23
    Ricky Gervais
    “A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: atheism, christianity, comedy, humor, humour, rationality, religion, scepticism, skepticisim
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  • #24
    Ricky Gervais
    “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . Then he said, "Let there be light." Which means he made the entire universe in the dark! How fucking good is that? He's brilliant.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: dark, god, humor, light, universe
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  • #25
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations
    tags: truth
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