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“It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.”
― Richard Cecil, Remains and Miscellanies of the Rev. R. Cecil: To which is Prefixed, a View of His Character 1857

“Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible, and scientists quote other scientists. How do either scientists or theologians answer this question about the accuracy of their conclusions: “In reference to what?”
― Frank Schaeffer, Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to give love, create beauty and find peace

“Making people change because you can’t deal with who they are isn’t how it’s supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough.”
― John Scalzi, Lock In

“His parents had raised him to believe that sex was something you did in private not because it was embarrassing, but because it was intimate.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes