"Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you."

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Source : Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Richard Dawkins

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“Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below the threshold of awareness that initiated an unusual event or gave one a curious half sensed feeling that something was about to happen just before it did. The magician seeks to exploid this effect deliberately, but in doing so he must avoid doing it deliberately as it were. Conscious lust of result destroys magical effect, so trickery must be employed to annul it and to activate the subconscious.”
“Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.”
“Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.”

Source : Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “The Visitor”, p.216, Hachette UK
“We had more great times than bad times together, but they've moved on, I've moved on. I have a new team now and I have a new focus.”
“I don't know how to drive a car.”
“Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.”
“Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.”
“The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.”

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