"There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'."

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"There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'."

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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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"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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"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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"It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potential moral units- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart.If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Beliefs can be dangerous viruses that can infect and affect a whole society, a country, and even a whole world."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I'm agnostic," I told him. "I'd be an atheist, except I believe in hedging my bets."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

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"I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created-but I believe there has to be something."

Stephen King, American Author

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

"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."

"People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs."

"He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence."

"A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart.If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'."

"Beliefs can be dangerous viruses that can infect and affect a whole society, a country, and even a whole world."

"I'm agnostic," I told him. "I'd be an atheist, except I believe in hedging my bets."

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"T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others."

"April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four."

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"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives."