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“The essential quality of life is living; the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution: and we are part of it.
The static, the enemy of change, is the enemy of life, and therefore our implacable enemy.”
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The static, the enemy of change, is the enemy of life, and therefore our implacable enemy.”
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“A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.”
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“On the contrary, to know that you are an individual not put here for some mysterious reason by some supernatural means, and that you are not protected by unknown powers or beings; to know that you are a product of millions of experiments in the evolutionary process and not the result of a seed thrown on this planet by extraterrestrials—that, to me, is very exciting.”
― Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
― Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
“Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.”
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“There used to be an intellectual class in America. . . . These people kept the world of ideas alive. But today the distinction between intellectuals and nonintellectuals doesn’t make any difference; celebrity is the only standard. . . . Everybody has become a talker of cheap philosophy that anybody can pick up.”
― The Faith Healers
― The Faith Healers
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