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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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Half of politics is "image-making", the other half is the art of making people believe the image

Half politics Image making Art Believe
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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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I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

Count Just Life Soul
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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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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
Colossal Essence Life Scale
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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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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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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid

Mind Thinking Stupid
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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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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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The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
The trick Writer Staying
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The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

World Turning Imbeciles
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I love romantic poetry.
Love Romantic Poetry
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Careless Could Each Fine
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You must never be afraid to go there.
Must never Afraid
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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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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Bad Being Black Business
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Oh, to be in England now that April's there

April England Now Oh
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I love words.
Love Words
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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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In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

Widespread illiteracy Functional People stupid
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I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

About Fairy Know Magic
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They minute people fall in love they become liars.

Minute people Fall Love Liars
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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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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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