"Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter?"

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Victor J. Stenger

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“In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.”
“There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.”
“Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison”
“Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.”
“I still like to keep all the love songs for the Grobanites, I like to make sure that they know those are just for them.”
“The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed because it leads to rampant immorality, on both the personal and political scales. The basic cause of this immorality is atheism.”
“With the films, it starts off with certain coordinates in the world and seeing what happens. What happens if you place yourself at an oil refinery in the Middle East? What happens if you place yourself in the White House Cabinet Room? What happens if you place yourself with Brad Pitt on the set of a film? And so on. And no matter what I capture, there is a sense of dÃ©jÃ vu to it, like you might have come across this visual before.”
“The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class â€“ they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.”

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