I'm what you call a teleological existential atheist. I believe there's an intelligence to the universe with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey.

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I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

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It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

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Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

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Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve.

—Alasdair MacIntyre

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Atheists take religion too literally.

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

—Thomas Jefferson

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