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Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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dislikes
racism
religion
scepticism
stupidity
superstition
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Christopher Hitchens |
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Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
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scepticism
weakness
zombie
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Max Brooks |
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To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
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dogma
doubt
experience
faith
kool-aid
religion
scepticism
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Christopher Hitchens |
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And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.
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belief
faith
principles
reason
religion
scepticism
science
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Christopher Hitchens |
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It could all be unreal - how could you ever tell otherwise? You took it on trust, in part because what would be the point of doing anything else? When the fake behaved exactly like the real, why treat it as anything different? You gave it the benefit of the doubt, until something proved otherwise.
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reality
scepticism
virtual-reality
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Iain M. Banks |
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When everything impossible had been eliminated and what remains is supernatural, then someone is lying.
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evidence
rationality
scepticism
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Isaac Asimov |
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Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
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immorality
scepticism
sin
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Fulton J. Sheen |