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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.

Law Sex Shall Universal
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We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

Endure Fantasies Live Our
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When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Cross Drama Ends Enter
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You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
Allow Annoy Big Love
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You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

End Found Get Government
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Course Crazy Mean Wrong
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I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

Beam Got Here I Think
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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

Any Blood Importance Learned
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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Becomes Destroy Longer Need
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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

Celebrated Communication Define Elite
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It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.

Able Only Others People
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If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

According Become Belief Blind
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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

Anarchism Anarchist Any Because
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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

Dogmatic Dread Forward Look
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My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

About Alone Everything Get
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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

Accomplished Efforts Enough Little
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

About Atheists Believed Ever
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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Atheists Authority Automatically Beliefs
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Championship Chess Computer Forward
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Against Am Because Religion
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Because Belief Evaluate Even
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There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Agnostic Any Bottom Evidence
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Brains Drop Means Our
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Altruism Because Born Generosity
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One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Answers Really Religion Satisfied
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

About Belief Institutions Passage
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Blind Discouraging Expedient Faith
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

About Doubt Earth Evolution
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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Complex Difficult Explain Improbable
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
Colossal Essence Life Scale
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God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Culture Environment Exists Form
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I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

Anybody Believes Either Ignorant
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I love romantic poetry.
Love Romantic Poetry
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My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

Bit Decision Default Drift
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I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

Age Confirmed Prep School
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I love words.
Love Words
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I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

About Fairy Know Magic
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Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
Age Existence First Intelligent
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Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

About Among Anything Certain
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We are a very, very unusual species.

Species Unusual Very
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

Banning Course Intolerant Never
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

Based Blindly Book Evidence
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Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

Christ Disagree Followers Love
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Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Aid Fine Get Metaphors
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Natural selection is anything but random.

Anything Natural Random Selection
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The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

Consolation Feeling Inside Nice
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My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Atheism Evolution Feeling Led
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I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

Accept Far Grander Imagine
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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

Been Never Success Will
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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Art Because Culture Education
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