Richard Dawkins Quotes

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

Richard Dawkins

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The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

Jim Webb

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Humans are lazy but not stupid.

Jenova Chen

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I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

John Shelby Spong

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But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

Tomas Borge

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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Ronald Reagan

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Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

Mike Watt

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I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

Ludacris

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I like to collaborate with other people for studio recordings because I believe collaboration, in any form, makes music better.

Lou Barlow

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I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

Joseph Beuys

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We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

Doc Hastings

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If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.

Diane Cilento

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