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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell.

Dismaying aspect Excellence Living World
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God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

God Justice Never Prove
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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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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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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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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Before Bent Carve Ever
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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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Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

Every Late Rome Round
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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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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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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Lose it Never loved Breathing
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