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Quote by Garrett Hardin
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from mop

The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings. – Garrett Hardin

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A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality. – Garrett Hardin

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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed. – Garrett Hardin

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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum. – Garrett Hardin

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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other. – Thomas Jefferson

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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. – George Santayana

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An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: “If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” “No,” said the priest, “not if you did not know.” “Then why,” asked the Inuit earnestly, “did you tell me?” – Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. – Ghose Aurobindo

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