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As a source of objective morality, the Bible is one of the worst books we have. It might be the very worst, in fact—if we didn't also happen to have the Qur'an.

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

You don't get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you don't know.

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

Free Will (2012)

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

Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)

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

Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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