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"Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten to fly planes into skyscrapers. We never threaten suicide bombs. We are very gentle people. All we do is use words to talk about things like the cosmos, the origin of the universe, evolution, the origin of life. What's there to be frightened of? It's just an opinion."
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"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave."
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"The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers."
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"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."
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"Know the other person's viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence."
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"It is true that words drop away, and that the important things are often left unsaid. The important things are learned in faces, in gestures, not in our locked tongues. The true things are too big or too small, or in any case is always the wrong size to fit in the template called language."
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"Silence is an arguement hard to refute."
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"Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people's silence."
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"A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader - as an irritating voice is to a listener."
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"Not every single way of saying the right thing is right."
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"Are you being approachable when you are around new people? Ever not know what to say? Simply smile when you make eye contact. This is a subliminal invitation to help others feel safe-allowing a conversation to follow naturally."
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"It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."
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"Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things."
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"One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all."
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"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."
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"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale."
Life
"What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?"
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"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that."
Religion
"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."
Religion
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
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"Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?"
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