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“While thinking is a practical necessity, the failure to recognize thoughts as thoughts, moment after moment, is what gives each of us the feeling that we call “I,” and this is the string upon which all our states of suffering and dissatisfaction are strung.”
― Sam Harris

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“What one believes happens after death dictates much of what one believes about life, and this is why faith-based religion, in presuming to fill in the blanks in our knowledge of the hereafter, does such heavy lifting for those who fall under its power. A single proposition – you will not die – once believed, determines a response to life that would be otherwise unthinkable.”
― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

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“Dogma in science really is humiliating when it is recognized as dogma.”
― Sam Harris

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“A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything in a person’s life.”
― Sam Harris

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“If being prepared for death entails knowing when and where it will happen, the odds are you will not be prepared. Not only are you bound to die and leave this world; you are bound to leave it in such a precipitate fashion that the present significance of anything ― your relationships, your plans for the future, your hobbies, your possessions ― will appear to have been totally illusory.”
― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

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