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Rebel and Atheist too, why murmur I, / As though I felt the worst that love could do? John Donne
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Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery. Bede Griffiths
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. C. S. Lewis
atheist real believe
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
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In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
atheist reading men
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us. Carl Reiner
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At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. Carl Sagan
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Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people. Karl Menninger
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The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments - success Edmund Burke
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges. Barack Obama
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If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions. Stephen Covey
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The governor has given me some criterion in terms of the kind of individual we're looking for, ... We've put together a very detailed questionnaire to gather info on each and every candidate, including public records, financial records, health records -- all of those kinds of things that you look at. Dick Cheney
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There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we're still just infants. We're way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power. Greg Graffin
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I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time. Sebastian Faulks
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?' M. H. Abrams
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Success - it 's what you do with what you've got. Woody Hayes
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Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile goals. Paul Meyer
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Our success has been obvious, at least from the word on the streets, and I feel like we have opportunities that are still arising. Reo Hatfield
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
success responsibility assuming
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
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Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability. Barry Mann
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights. B. R. Ambedkar
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Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete. Bill Shoemaker
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There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. Bill Condon