Tom Lehrer Quotes
No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.
Quotes to Explore
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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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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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
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Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.
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Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.
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Thank God I'm an atheist.
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
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If the televangelists are guilty of producing some simple-minded, self-righteous Christians, then the atheist authors are guilty of producing self-congratulatory buffoons like Condell.
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I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.
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If there was another real one, it could be dangerous. People could be hurt. We have to act just like we would if this were real.
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Knowledge is dangerous.
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The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.
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The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.
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The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.
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It's tough being out there doing what I'm doing in what they call a man's world.
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Be yourself -- it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.
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No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.
