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If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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واعلموا أن الأمة التي تفرط في عرضها لا يمكن أن تحتفظ بعد ذلك بأي شيء، فإن العرب حتى في جاهليتهم ما كانوا يرضون هذا- يعني السفور ومخالطة الرجال- لبناتهم أو لأخواتهم ولا لأمهاتهم، بل كانوا يتفاخرون بالعفة؛ وهذا عنترة بن شداد يقول: وأغضُّ طرفي إن بدت لي جارتي حتى يواري جارتي مأواها ↗

— سفر الحوالي

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I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the rather paltry frames of reference I have on hand. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

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A man inferior with the blade or with his thoughts can still so elevate himself," Entreri explained curtly, "if he can impart the belief that some god or other speaks through him. It is the greatest deception in all the world and one embraced by kings and lords, while the minor lying thieves on the streets or Calimport and other cities lose their tongues for so attempting to coax the purses of others. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

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…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed. ↗

— Dan Brown

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The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky. ↗

— Anne Rice

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the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed. ↗

— Anonymous

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