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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simpl

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. – Richard Dawkins

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We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us – through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology – that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. – Richard Dawkins

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Technology
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The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no. – Richard Dawkins

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God
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. – Richard Dawkins

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That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. – Albert Einstein

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Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. – Charles Henry Parkhurst

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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Faith

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear. – Jonathan Sacks

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In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist. – Heywood Broun

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit. – Aristotle

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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature. – George Bernard Shaw

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