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Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances,... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.
-- St. Augustine |
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Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec |
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Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.
-- StarHawk |
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
-- Stendhal |
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While walking through the desert, I saw a creature. Naked, beastial. Who, squatting upon the ground, held it's heart in its hands... and ate of it. 'Is it good, friend?' I asked. "It is bitter... bitter," it replied. "But I like it because it IS bitter. And because it is my heart."
-- Stephen Crane |
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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
-- Stephen Vincent Benét |
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If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.
-- Steve Allen |
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No actual tyrant known to history has ever been guilty of one-hundredth of the crimes, massacres, and other atrocities attributed to the Deity in the Bible.
-- Steve Allen |
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Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe.
-- Steven Pinker |
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The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs in the body...our emotions and higher callings, such as religion, as well as our grubby low-level physical systems like stereo vision and motor control, are products of a machine...
-- Steven Pinker |
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Sift through my insanity and revel in my greatness.
-- Stone Richardsohn |
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Life is simple: you're born, you die.
It's the stuff in between that tells you if it was worth the simplicity.
-- SuBzeRo |
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
-- Sylvia Plath |
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
-- Sylvia Plath |
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With 2000 years of examples behind us we have no excuse when fighting, for not fighting well.
-- T. E. Lawrence |
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