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#1

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: expectations, humor

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“الخطر لا يتقى بالابتعاد والفرار منه، وإنما يتقى بالتعلم كيف يتقى وكيف يراض ويوجه إلى الخير والفائدة.”
― عبد الله القصيمي, هذي هي الأغلال

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“إنّ إلهَ أيَّ قومٍ أَو مَذهبْهم أَو دِينهم ليسَ أَكثرَ أَو أَقلَّ مِن تَفسيرهم لَه”
― عبد الله القصيمي, أيها العقل من رآك

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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, philosophy

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#6

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
― Richard Dawkins

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“A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: children, indoctrination, religion

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“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
― Richard Dawkins

tags: institutions, organized-religion, religion, richard-dawkins

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“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
― Richard Dawkins

tags: religion, willful-ignorance

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#10

“Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheist, child, faith, parental-love, parenthood, parents

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#11

“There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”
― Richard Dawkins

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#12

“The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.”
― Richard Dawkins

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#13

“Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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#14

“The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.”
― Richard Dawkins

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#15

“We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.”
― Richard Dawkins, A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love – Essays from Renowned Scientist Richard Dawkins on Evolution and the Examined Life

tags: apes, evolution

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#16

“The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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#17

“The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. ”
― Richard Dawkins

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#18

“What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: death, friends, friendship, life, proust-questionnaire, rushdie

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#19

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

tags: critical-thinking, independent-thought, opinions, skepticism, thinking

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“Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and—since there is no other metaphor—also the soul.”
― Christopher Hitchens

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#21

“I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: atheism, delusions, fantasy, illusions, religion

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#22

“The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

tags: prayer

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“God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

tags: ahteism, free-inquiry, humanism, science

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#24

“Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

tags: argumentation, debate

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#25

“[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: denial, justification, lies, torture

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#26

“Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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“Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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“And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

tags: atheism, belief, faith, principles, reason, religion, scepticism, science

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“Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: atheism, death, faith, life, patience, religion, virtues

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#30

“Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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