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I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will — and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain.

— Gene Roddenberry In His Name (2010)

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The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

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The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.

Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World (1992)

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons . . . God is, for lack of a better term, clout. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.

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