Ay, but you know we must return good for evil. LADY BRUTE: That may be a mistake in the translation.


“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Pipefuls
― Pipefuls

“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
― The Age of Reason
― The Age of Reason

“Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?"
Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.”
― The Bronze Horseman
Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.”
― The Bronze Horseman
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