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In Search of Lost Time: The Complete Masterpiece

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What might once have been called advertising must now be understood as continuous behavior modification on a titanic scale.

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“I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. ― Isaac Asimov”
― I. M. Probulos, The Big Book of Quotations for Atheists, Agnostics, and Secular Humanists

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“In The Future of an Illusion, Freud made the obvious point that religion suffered from one incurable deficiency: it was too clearly derived from our own desire to escape from or survive death. This critique of wish-thinking is strong and unanswerable,”
― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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“You might be a chicken or a human being, but show a little rebelliousness and the next thing you knew you were all on your own.”
― Ryū Murakami, 69

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“Religion is, after all, more than the belief in a supreme being. It is the cult of that supreme being and the belief that his or her wishes have been made known or can be determined.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

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“Whenever one asks “Why?” in science, one actually means “How?”. “Why?” is not really a sensible question in science because it usually implies purpose and, as anyone who has been the parent of a small child knows, one can keep on asking “Why?” forever, no matter what the answer to the previous question. Ultimately, the only way to end the conversation seems to be to say “Because!”
― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing

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