Michael Specter - Quotes

 People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free. 

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Alyson Noel - Quotes

 Though I have to admit, I had a good laugh when I realized you thought I was a bloodsucker. 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power in the here and now. One thinks of the painstaking, cloud-dispelling labor of British scientists from Isaac Newton to Joseph Priestley to Charles Darwin to Ernest Rutherford to Alan Turing and Francis Crick, much of it built upon the shoulders of Galileo and Copernicus, only to see it casually slandered by a moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of Hanover. An awful embarrassment awaits the British if they do not declare for a republic based on verifiable laws and principles, both political and scientific. 

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Michel de Montaigne - Quotes

 It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account. 

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Alyson Noel - Quotes

 Oh, so you see some chick in baggy jeans and a hoodie, and you just have to have her so bad, you decide to repeat high school, just to get her? 

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Mahathir Mohamad - Quotes

 I'm a fundamentalist in the true sense. That is to say, I follow the fundamentals of religion...

But for over 1,400 years people have been interpreting and re-interpreting the religion to suit their own purpose!

...These [extremist and terrorist acts] are not Islamic fundamentals any more than the Christians who burned people at the stake are fundamentalist. They are actually deviating from the teachings of the religion! 

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Anne Lamott - Quotes

 You can safely assume you have made God in your own image, when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. 

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Alyson Noel - Quotes

 Now, now. 

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Susan Campbell - Quotes

 So you raise up a few generations of young girls, telling them that they should step to the back of the bus, ingrain that in their psyche, preach it to them from the pulpit, hold up as ideal examples women doing precisely that, and in a few years, you can step back; you need say no more. Your work is done, because you have carefully created a herd of women who know and even begrudgingly accept that their place is secondary, just outside the limelight, clapping for and cheering on the important people who were never taught to put others first. 

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