"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think..."

-- Richard Dawkins

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“How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.”
“A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.”
“When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.”
“When everyone gets something for nothing, soon no one will have anything, because no one will be producing anything.”

Source : "Charles Koch: Why We Fight for Economic Freedom". www.newsmax.com. August 15, 2012.
“Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”
“I didn't know the comic at all, which is really funny because I grew up here and I had friends who worked at all of the places. Like The Beguiling, which is a store here, and Suspect Video and one of my friends actually worked at Suspect and The Beguiling. So it's kind of crazy that I'd never known the books before.”
“My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon's natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds.”
“I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.”

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