"I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order to preserve a just and stable society than we needed to cling to the Gold Standard to keep our currency sound. It was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it. Denmark, according to a recent study, is the sanest, healthiest, happiest, most crime-free nation in the world, and by and large the Danes simply ignore the God issue. We should certainly hope that those who believe in belief are wrong, because belief is waning fast, and the props are beginning to buckle."

Source : "The folly of pretence" by Daniel Dennett, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2009.

Daniel Dennett

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“I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.”
“The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils.”

Source : "Eminent Europeans; studies in continental reality" by E. S. Bagger, G.P. Putnam's Sons, (p. 67), 1922.
“A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”
“I love how New York is so multicultural. I wish I was ethnic, I'm nothing. Because if you're Hispanic and you get angry, people are like, 'He's got a Latin temper!' If you're a white guy and you get angry, people are like, 'That guy's a jerk.'”
“The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.”
“And all I know is, you've got to give me everything. Nothing less 'cause, you know I give you all of me.”
“To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.”

Source : "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 22, 1990.
“I find my movie props in my neighbors houses.”

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