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If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

— John Cleese

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All humans are stupid, but the smarter ones at least have a handle on their own ignorance.

Because these people are operating at a very very low level of mental health, they are incapable of understanding the teaching.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Best New Games (2002)

Four hundred years ago, we would have been burnt for this film. Now, I'm suggesting that we've made an advance.

He who laughs most, learns best.

Creating Emotionally Safe Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents‎ (2001)

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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