Never Lie
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My mother always said not to leave the house in shoes you can’t walk a mile in.
“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.”
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“When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.”
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“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.”
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“{Letter to his brother, 1861}
... I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths... But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth, or believe that those will be better off in a future state who have lived in the belief of doctrines inculcated from childhood, and which are to them rather a matter of blind faith than intelligent conviction.”
― Letters and Reminiscences 1
... I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths... But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth, or believe that those will be better off in a future state who have lived in the belief of doctrines inculcated from childhood, and which are to them rather a matter of blind faith than intelligent conviction.”
― Letters and Reminiscences 1
“drink alcoholic beverages (“Be ye not drunk with wine,”
― Forged: Writing in the Name of God — Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
― Forged: Writing in the Name of God — Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
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