Paul Bloom Quotes
If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.
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You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
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Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
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Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
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The lower income individuals, under any Republican proposal, at least that I have seen, are real losers in the framework because there is not enough subsidy, not enough assistance, for them to realistically participate in the market. Particularly if you halt or rollback the Medicaid expansion, which is for the lowest income workers.
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I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.
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An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
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I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.
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People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
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Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.
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An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
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I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.
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Like many survivors it has taken me years to understand the impact upon my life. At some point we realize that we trusted someone we should have feared and we fear those genuine relationships that we should trust.
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You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.
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If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.
