"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."

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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."

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Your dreams will only take you as far as your faith in them."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Anyway, lots of warrior tribes think that when they die, they go to a heavenly land somewhere," said the toad. "You know, where they can drink and fight and feast forever? So maybe this is theirs."But this is a real place!"So? That's what they believe. Besides, they're only small. Maybe the universe is a bit crowded and they have to put heavens anywhere there's room? I'm a toad, so you'll appreciate that I'm having to guess a lot here."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"I wonder either their God has turned old, sick or died, because even the religious people no more believe in shit."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"What you believe and hold close to your heart, you will become."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go."

Stephen King, American Author

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"You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again."

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"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

Life

"Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment."

Creation

"For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on."

Behavior

"The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from."

Psychology

"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."

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"Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do- to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street."

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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."

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

"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."

"I wonder either their God has turned old, sick or died, because even the religious people no more believe in shit."

"Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure."

"What you believe and hold close to your heart, you will become."

"The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go."

"You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell."

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"A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again."

"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

"Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment."

"For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on."

"The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from."

"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."

"If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?"

"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."

"Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing."

"Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do- to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street."