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Being an atheist is like not owning a TV – completely rational, but best kept to one's self.

— Barrett Brown

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Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.

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In conclusion, they should let me out of jail.

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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

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One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love — to serve the loved one without his knowing it — is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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