"Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible."

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"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."

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"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion."

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"The doubter doesn't sure which one is right,but it tends to demean other people's beliefs."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe, the theist believes a 'who' created the universe."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Gods didn't mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Don't be agnostic - be something."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Many of us are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. There are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly moronic, you actually feel stupid for not believing them; and it's probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt you self-doubt, you convince yourself into lame passivity and blind acceptance, you tell yourself, 'Maybe I'm just missing something here."

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"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."

"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."

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"The doubter doesn't sure which one is right,but it tends to demean other people's beliefs."

"The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe, the theist believes a 'who' created the universe."

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