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"a man without god is like a fish without a bicycle."
"the fundamentalist christians have told me that i am a slave of satan and should have the demons expelled with an exorcism. the fundamentalist materialists inform me that i am a liar, a charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. both groups share in the same crusading zeal and the same total lack of humor, charity, and common human decency. these intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogmas enter the brain, all intellectual activity ceases." "it only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. In an evolving universe, who stands still moves backwards." "i never have one model. i always have at least seven models for anything. " "frankly, i'd find life a bore if i weren't playing for very high stakes in a very high risk situation. we do have the chance now, for utopia and even for immortality. if we who see this opportunity aren't smart enough, adroit enough, and fast enough to seize the chance, then we don't deserve to initiate the next stage of evolution... meanwhile, until they shovel me under, i still think our side is winning and that the power brokers that you worry about are a bunch of dying dinosaurs." "we should always try to have a reality-tunnel this week, bigger, funnier, and more hopeful than we had last week, and we should aim even higher next week. besides, paranoia is a loser script; it defines somebody else as being in charge around here except me. i prefer to define myself and my friends as the architects of the future. if david rockefeller has the same idea about himself and his friends, well, the future itself will decide which coalition was really on the evolutionary wave: the money people or the idea people" "...unless you're an illiterate and malnourished asian with exactly 1.04 vaginas and 0.96 testicles, living in substandard housing, you do not qualify as normal but as abnormal, subnormal, supernormal, paranormal or some variety of nonnormal." re: the u.s. government: "what would you think of a man who not only kept an arsenal in his home, but was collecting at enormous financial sacrifice a second arsenal to protect the first one? what would you say if this man so frightened his neighbors that they in turn were collecting weapons to protect themselves from him? what if this man spent ten times as much money on his expensive weapons as he did on the education of his children? what if one of his children criticized his hobby and he called that child a traitor and a bum and disowned him? and he took another child who obeyed him faithfully and armed that child and sent it out into the world to attack neighbors? what would you say about a man who introduces poisons into the water he drinks and the air he breathes? what if this man not only is feuding with the people on his block but involves himself in the quarrels of others in distant parts of the city and even in the suburbs? such a man would clearly be a paranoid schizophrenic... with homicidal tendencies." |
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