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Until then, Cooper continues to get away. Which is really what we want anyway. Through the decades, Cooper has become more to us than just an outlaw. He is a canvas. He is who we want him to be. Like other legends, he has so many of the
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It's clearly glorifying a criminal, but it is good writing nonetheless.
“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
“Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith.
We do not hold our convictions dogmatically. We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true - that religion has caused innumerate people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser raise an eyebrow.”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
We do not hold our convictions dogmatically. We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true - that religion has caused innumerate people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser raise an eyebrow.”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and—since there is no other metaphor—also the soul.”
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“He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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