Amanda Marcotte Quotes
The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
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You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
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Big stories need human stakes.
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My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
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I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.
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The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous.
