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“Many religious people find it hard to imagine how, without religion, one can be good, or would even want to be good.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“There is no such thing as the last straw. There is only hay.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man’s place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism