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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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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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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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!
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This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.
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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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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.
