We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. It’s a parasite regarded as a virtue. I speak as a representative of the scientific faction of atheism: it’s one thing we simply cannot compromise on. Faith is wrong.
The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.
Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.
If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton I want you to be very happy. It's very important to me.
I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.
One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else