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“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
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“I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”
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“I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.”
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“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“if you look at humanity's per-capita energy use today, it's as thought each human being has twenty-three servants for him or her, every hour of every day”
― Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World
― Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World
Daniel’s 2025 Year in Books
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