Richard Dawkins Quotes

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

Richard Dawkins

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If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

Joel Osteen

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I have days when I say, 'I'm going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.' I'll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day.

Melissa Etheridge

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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

John Ruskin

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I want to go to Italy and France; those are my two places. And I really want to go to Greece. I've seen so many pictures on Airbnb that make me think I should be living there. I could eat great salads and be on a boat.

Mary Lambert

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No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.

Miranda Hart

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Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

Lisa Randall

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There's stuff going on in the world right now, which you can't imagine why is this happening; it's crazy. I don't know what the answer is, but if you didn't have faith in the universe that somehow something great would arrive at the end, then we'd all give up, and that would be a waste of everyone's time.

Chris Martin

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Most of my fans know I love video games. I say it in every interview, so they know. But one thing that I like doing is skateboarding, I like jet skiing, skydiving. It's like a huge roller coaster ride. Like forty seconds of free-falling. That's some of the stuff I love, daredevil stuff. I like horseback riding.

Prince Royce

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Predictions of a disappearing political center are a warning of a bleak future that we can avoid only by adhering to our nation's founding principles.

Susan Collins

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I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

Richard P. Feynman

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The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power.

Noah Feldman

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Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

Justin Kirk

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