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If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so.
-- Richard Dawkins

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In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
-- Mark Twain

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
-- Voltaire

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Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.
-- Jon Stewart

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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
-- Sir Richard F. Burton

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If you doubt that it is stinky personality that is the driving force behind conservative politics, look back to your pre political youth. A dollar to a doughnut everyone of those childhood friends and acquaintances who was an asshole then is a conservative today.
-- Rack Jite

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This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance.
-- Stephen Wright

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I don't have a lot of experience with vampires, but I have hunted werewolves. I shot one once, but by the time I got to it, it had turned back into my neighbor's dog.
-- Dwight Kurt Schrute III

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In Washington, only two kinds of religion are tolerated: vague beliefs strongly affirmed and strong beliefs vaguely expressed.
-- Eugene McCarthy

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I'll handle this... the only danger in space is if we land on the terrible Planet of the Apes... wait a minute. Statue of Liberty... THAT WAS OUR PLANET! YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
-- Homer J. Simpson

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There's nothing wrong with murder, just as long as you let Bender whet his beak.
-- Bender Unit 22

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When the end time comes and you're tilling the Earth with a human femur while the sky is raining fire, you're gonna want a reliable supply of radicchio and mini-squash.
-- Stephen Colbert

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One does not need to puzzle long over why religionists hate atheists so venomously. Atheist stir up the suppressed doubts of believers to the point of producing anguish. This is the anguish that incited believers to burn heretics and atheists at the stake in olden times to remove the source of the unsettling, disturbing doubts that plagued the believers.
-- C. W. Dalton (The Right Brain and Religion)

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The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup (The C++ Programming Language)

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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
-- Bertrand Russell

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I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
-- Dave Barry

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Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey

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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
-- George Carlin

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It's tough to have sex during marriage because you're always walking that tight rope between "this again?" and "where did you learn that?"
-- Emo Philips

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I can't believe Liberace was gay! Women loved him! I didn't see that one coming.
-- Austin Powers

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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
-- Richard P. Feynman

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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
-- Mark Twain

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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
-- George Bernard Shaw

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Almost anything derogatory you could say about today's software design would be accurate.
-- K.E. Iverson

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D'oh! English! Who needs that? I'm never going to England.
-- Homer J. Simpson

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Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.
-- Jack Handey

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I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
-- Hunter Thompson

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He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
-- David Frost

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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
-- Abraham Lincoln

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It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
-- Terry Pratchett

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Unix is hard to learn. The process of learning it is one of multiple small epiphanies. Typically you are just on the verge of inventing some necessary tool or utility when you realize that someone else has already invented it, and built it in, and this explains some odd file or directory or command that you have noticed but never really understood before.
-- Neal Stephenson