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The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.
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Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit. Carlos Castaneda
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. Carl Barks
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Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. Carl Bernstein
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A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables. C. S. Lewis
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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
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In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
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Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. Charles Caleb Colton
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I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'. Susan B. Anthony
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I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go. Tracy Chapman
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A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge. Carl Sagan
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Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts
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We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God. Chief Joseph
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Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose. Michel Onfray
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What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected. Kurt Vonnegut
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The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.
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Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more. Ricky Gervais
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Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational
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Atheism is a belief system”, is like saying “not going skiing, is a hobby.
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As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life. C. Wright Mills
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Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism. Charles Spurgeon
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The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. Charles Bradlaugh
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There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.