"Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going?"

Anonymous on athlete
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"Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason."

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"Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism."

Asimov, Isaac on atheism
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"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."

Roberts, Steven H. on atheism
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"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."

Hubbard, Kin on destiny
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"The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street."

Hubbard, Kin on elections   

"The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them."

Hubbard, Kin on entertainment   

"Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity."

Hubbard, Kin on guests   

"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."

Hubbard, Kin on happiness   

"The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store."

Hubbard, Kin on home   

"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."

Hubbard, Kin on agreement
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"The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket."

Hubbard, Kin on money   

"One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married."

Hubbard, Kin on worry   

"We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate."

Hubbard, Kin on voting
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"There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"

Hubbard, Kin on success   

"Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them."

Hubbard, Kin on sin
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"If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public."

Hubbard, Kin on politics   

"Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil."

Hubbard, Kin on peace
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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."

Russell, Bertrand on mathematics
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"Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."

Russell, Bertrand on marriage
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"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it."

Russell, Bertrand on illusion
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"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."

Russell, Bertrand on ignorance
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"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

Russell, Bertrand on fools and foolishness
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"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

Russell, Bertrand on fear   

"Most people would rather die than think: many do."

Russell, Bertrand on death
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"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"

Crisp, Quentin on atheism
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"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life."

Epicurus on misfortunes
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"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"

Epicurus on atheism
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"We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach."

Russell, Bertrand on morality   

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."

Russell, Bertrand on patriotism   

"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic."

Russell, Bertrand on religion   

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hairs"

Gibran, Kahlil on environment   

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

King Jr. Martin Luther on ignorance
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"You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you."

Fink, David Harold on knowledge   

"When we become a part of anything, it becomes a part of us."

Fink, David Harold on environment   

"The tongue can paint what the eye can't see."

Proverb, Chinese on persuasion
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

Proverb, Chinese on proverbs
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"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."

Russell, Bertrand on credulity   

"What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out."

Russell, Bertrand on belief
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