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“Do you still shout at people when they talk about their faith?”
I shake my head. “I grew out of that. Now I mostly let them damn themselves with their own ignorance.”

— Emma Newman After Atlas (2016)

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One should never break a sacred law when under the influence of psychoactive substances.

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I think that interpreting events as signs from God is a slippery slope.

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The simple truth emerges like a bubble of swamp gas and just as foul.

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Saying it’s a sign from God is an interpretation, not a fact.

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I know enough to never take journalists at their word.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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