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"The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?"
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"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."

"Be true to your love to be true to yourself."

"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."

"If you light a fire, you cannot conceal the smoke."

"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

"When we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition."
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"Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition."

"If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable."

"By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified."

"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."

"Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?"

"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give."

"It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt."
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