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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

— Sam Harris Free Will (2012)

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The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable.

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Every time you scratch your nose, you have committed a Holocaust of potential human beings.

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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

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There is, I'm happy to say, a religion of peace in this world, but it's not Islam.

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

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When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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