"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion."

-- Arthur C. Clarke

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“It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.”
“I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do”
“The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us”
“We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.”
“There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.”
“Since we parted yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer,- One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,-thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before.”
“Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.”
“When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.”

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