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Book cover for Baptism: A Vietnam Memoir
A puff of wind came up, carrying the stench of who knew how many corpses. Oh, that stink—it ought to be bottled and sold to every president, prime minister, king, dictator, and general for use when he gets an idea in his head to go to war. ...more
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Richard Dawkins
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
Richard Dawkins

Ray Bradbury
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury

H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Thomas Jefferson
“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Robert G. Ingersoll
“The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.”
Robert Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child

21708 SCOTUS History and Philosophy — 47 members — last activity Jul 19, 2022 04:53PM
A discussion of cases and issues and books related to the U.S. Note that this group is basically defunct. I am referring people to Alan Johnson's very ...more
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Hi there! SFFBC is a welcoming place for readers to share their love of speculative fiction through group reads, buddy reads, challenges, ...more
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This book group reads nonfiction books on various topics in medieval European history, both academic and popular history. Group reads can last from on ...more
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