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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."

"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."

"There is no limitation to what you can achieve, if you can believe."

"Your dreams will only take you as far as your faith in them."
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"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."


"From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment."


"If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken."
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