Sam Harris Quotes

Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

Sam Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 9, 1967

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The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.

Jim Sensenbrenner

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Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

Joan Blades

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Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

John Hawley

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I dislike the gym, but I'll chase a tennis ball all day.

Matt Kuchar

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Elon Musk wins you over with his elegant mastery of engineering, be it for the rocket or the car. But what blew my socks off was when our conversation veered way off topic. We started musing about whether it was possible we all lived in the matrix, and Musk still had deep knowledge.

Steve Jurvetson

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Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves.

Stephen Kinzer

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The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Tony Snow

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Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming data collection into bias confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance.

Michael Shermer

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I'm obsessed with 'Hamilton.' I've seen it, like, three times, and if I could get a weekly pass, I would.

Joshua Henry

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In the 1960s, I was convinced that the world was extremely mentally ill.

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Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.

David Suzuki

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On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

Christopher Durang

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