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My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.


Richard Dawkins

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complicated philosophies. My brain and my
heart...
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defence? One might have supp...
RICHARD DAWKINS The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never ...
RICHARD DAWKINS Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly depa...
RICHARD DAWKINS Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consumin...
RICHARD DAWKINS There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children,...
RICHARD DAWKINS The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose ...
RICHARD DAWKINS Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independen...
RICHARD DAWKINS If you don't understand how something
works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You d...
RICHARD DAWKINS