"It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Atheist Quotes #Parent Quotes #Coincidence Quotes

“I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.”
“I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.”
“In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Irans theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.”
“Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!”
“Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.”
“The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.”
“The mother tongue is propaganda.”
“Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.”

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