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Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ...

Nobody Author Producer Own life
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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Altruism Because Born Generosity
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Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.

Good works Forgotten instantly World
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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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For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.

Legends attract Test Times Ideologies attract
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There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

Hardly Better way Discussion Releasing
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If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to ‘demand’ its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

Ability Tell right Think Every sane
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But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

Moral question Answer Legally relevant
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Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such,

Mass leaders Power Lies Propaganda
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To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent

Sum up Politically speaking Power Violence
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The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.

National crime Violated Constitutional right
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Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

Loved LovedOne Never Place
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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

Eight Fellow Girl Him
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The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

The ability Dream My responsibility Burden
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet

Arms Burn Cheeks Clutch
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If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

About Beauty Best Else
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Oh, to be in England now that April's there

April England Now Oh
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It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

Art Glory Good Least
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I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

About Fairy Know Magic
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Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Changes Earth God Soul
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Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.
Day job Money Please yourself
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I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

Picture Mind Dollars Think
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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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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character

Character Faith Fear Hope
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The only thing worth writing about is people. People. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight.

Worth writing People Human beings Men
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Gods can do anything. They fear nothing: they are gods. There is one rule, one Seal of Solomon that can confound a god, and to which all gods pay service, to the letter: when belief in a god dies, the god dies.

God Can do Anything Fear nothing
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength

Breaks Land Loaded Sea
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Then he said the truest thing about their relationship. He said, "We didn't really fall in love. What we did was collide at the intersection of your life and mine.

Relationship In love Intersection Life
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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

Discern Finite Hearts Infinite
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The city lay cool and dim beneath a vaulting sky of high-scudding gray clouds. A gray shroud that covered the corpses of buildings, stiff in brick-and-steel rigor mortis, pale in their eternity of sooty death.

City lay Vaulting sky Clouds
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Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

Away How How Much Less Little
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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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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Alone Beast Distinctive Finds
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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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They are stories I wrote because my friends are gone, a lot of them, and if you can’t be angry about it, how the hell much did you care to begin with?

Stories Friends Gone Angry about
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Natural selection is anything but random.

Anything Natural Random Selection
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My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Atheism Evolution Feeling Led
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Really understand Person Point View
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

People generally See Look for
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Beneath Foot His Make
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Autumn Beauty End Garner
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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again

Again Baffled Begin Dry
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My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

Alive Always Been Dad
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Times My father Hated guns Wars
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Real courage Licked No matter
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Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

America Day Every Every Day
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You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

Choose Friends Family Look
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There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Kind Men Worrying Next world
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