"It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown."

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Source : Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

Dan Barker

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“Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.”
“Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads...”
“An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.”
“In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?”

Source : Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”
“Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.”
“I don't really want to start my career again, and I don't like Hollywood. If it had happened to me when I was young, yes, I'd be there like a shot, but I wouldn't like to go there and hang out and go to auditions at my age.”
“The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.”
“Capitalism's biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action.”

Source : Raghuram Rajan (2013). “Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism”, p.212, HarperCollins Publishers India

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