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556d500
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We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasi-hypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction.
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atheism
atheist
bias
brainwashing
cheat
conformity
emotion
evidence
falsity
honor
indoctrination
orthodox
religionists
truth
value
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H.P. Lovecraft |
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418b076
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I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
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cheat
humor
people
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Diana Wynne Jones |
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1cab6ea
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Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.
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cheat
fling
love
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Marian Keyes |
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2b4b0ac
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He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.
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cheat
fling
love
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Marian Keyes |
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f565b2b
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No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.
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cheat
fling
love
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Marian Keyes |
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d30a939
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As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.
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cheat
fling
love
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Marian Keyes |
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75d7856
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If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you
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cheat
fling
love
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Marian Keyes |
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c51137b
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If he says he doesn't love you anymore and does love this other woman, you've got to accept it. Maybe he will come back, maybe he won't, but either way, you've got to live through this.
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cheat
fling
love
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Marian Keyes |
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699ef23
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He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley?
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cheat
fling
love
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Marian Keyes |