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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

About Always American Declaration
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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

Adult All-Around Am Around
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I just love seeing people do well in life

Love People Do well Life
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Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

Been Birth Children Consequences
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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

About Assassination Been Deep
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We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

Activists Always Building Committed
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Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

Actions Finish Honor Kennedy
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The key is that your children are aware that you love them a lot, and that you are there when they really, really need you. If a kid was ill, I would simply leave a meeting and go home.

Aware Children Go Home
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I need to work outside government, on my own.
Government Need Outside Own
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I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.

Always Anybody Bear Being
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

Challenge Going Me Never
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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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You need God all the time but you see when you are winning, That’s when you need God the most

Need God Time Winning Most
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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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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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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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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
War Luxury Small nations
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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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The only antidote to the reversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.

Only antidote Reversibility History
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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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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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Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.

Revolutionary action Theatrical concession
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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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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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Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.

Slavery Social condition Laboring classes
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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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Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.

Taken away Lasting enjoyment Proper object
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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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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold

Age Cram Day He
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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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Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Ambition Does Man Would
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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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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay

Appeal Autumn Best Decay
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The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

Last century Abundance Ideologies History
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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 only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.

Possible metaphor Conceive Life Mind
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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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Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the non totalitarian world.

Existence Non totalitarian world
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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Age Crystal Deemed Dew
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You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Entitled Your opinion Informed opinion Ignorant
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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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