Zarir Patel

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3-self-discovery‎ (47)
2-trading-investing‎ (45)
1-science‎ (39)
5-india‎ (26)

4-history‎ (25)
politics‎ (16)
biography‎ (12)
7-health‎ (10)

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fiction‎ (8)
9-travel‎ (6)
8-music‎ (2)

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Zarir’s Quotes

“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
― Richard Dawkins

tags: institutions, organized-religion, religion, richard-dawkins

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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
― Richard Dawkins

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“The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.”
― Richard Dawkins

tags: evolution

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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism

tags: atheism, philosophy

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“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism

tags: satisfaction, understanding

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