Quote by Richard Dawkins
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. – Richard Dawkins

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I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality – youre told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things. – Richard Dawkins

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Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but thats because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. – Richard Dawkins

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For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria. – Richard Dawkins

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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. – Thomas Aquinas

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Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. – Grover Norquist

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. – Erich Fromm

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When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you cant even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me. – Jenna Ushkowitz

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