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“In God we trust” was first added to American coinage in 1863, during the height of the Civil War, seventy-five years after the Constitutional Convention. It was added to paper currency in 1955 and became the national motto in 1956. “Under God” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954. The first president to close a speech with “God bless America” was Richard Nixon, in a mendacious presidential message about Watergate.”
― The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
― The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
“Political and economic experts, for example, actually do worse than dart-throwing monkeys when it comes to making long-term predictions.”
― The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and What You Can Do About Them
― The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and What You Can Do About Them
“The sheer number of ways that twenty distinct amino acids can be linked in a long chain makes this evident: for a chain with one hundred and fifty amino acids (a small protein), there are about 10195 different arrangements, far larger than the number of particles in the observable universe.”
― Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
― Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
“We knew a lot of Christians were starting to think we were a Christian band, and this was one of those songs that basically throws a wrench in it, and shows: ‘No. We’re questioners of all that. And want you to question it, too.”
― King's X: The Oral History
― King's X: The Oral History
“But people are not paper products.”
― Cyber Hacking: Wars in Virtual Space
― Cyber Hacking: Wars in Virtual Space
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