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The true value of art is determined more by its insight than by its beauty, rarity, or fame.

Someone who behaves well only because he fears punishment isn't truly moral; he's merely afraid. Where's the virtue in that?

No incentive or investment can make a business prosper without customers.

The clothes don't make you look fat. Being fat makes you look fat.

The probability that an idea is false is directly proportional to the fanaticism of those who advocate it.

Humor is like bread: best when fresh, most flavorful when wry.

Hunting isn't sport unless the duck shoots back.

Another's right to swing his fist ends where your nose begins—unless you stick your nose where it doesn't belong.

The one thing harder than doing something right is repairing the damage after doing it wrong.

Ordinary men quote the ideas of great men. Great men have ideas of their own.

Science doesn't have all the answers—only the most likely ones.

Survival is less a matter of being smart than of not being stupid.

Intelligence is figuring out what to do with knowledge. Wisdom is knowing what to do with intelligence.

Belief is pointless: It neither validates ideas that cannot withstand scrutiny, nor improves those that can.

Just a couple of words about Intelligent Design: "WISDOM TEETH!"

He who knows everything should reflect that most of human knowledge is nonsense.

Without the critical evaluation of ideas, mere knowledge is no better than ignorance. Worse, it is dangerous.

I would trade all the world's knowledge for a grain of understanding.

Hugs are the perfect gift. They are always the right size, never the wrong style or color, and actually improve when returned.

The only hard and fast rule in love is that hard and fast is best at the finish.

Size doesn't count, perhaps, but sighs do!

Real love isn't blind. It's just tolerant, patient, and forgiving.

If there is any sexual behavior which can be considered truly unnatural, it is celibacy.

Democratic Party: a den of iniquity. Republican Party: a din of inequity.

Conservatives advocate states' rights. Liberals believe in people's rights.

"Liberal" is not a dirty word, except to those who despise liberty.

A liberal is someone who has figured out that having a job and no tax cut is better than having a tax cut and no job.

A conservative is someone who reads the story of Robin Hood and thinks the Sheriff of Nottingham is "the good guy."

If humans could survive on red herring, we could eradicate starvation in the world with a single political campaign.

The First Amendment protects the right of the individual to believe as he sees fit, not the right of organized religion to compel him to believe as it sees fit.

What a person believes isn't nearly as important as why he believes it.

If a person believes for no reason but that he fears being called a fool if he does not, then he already is one.

It is difficult to imagine a worse blasphemy against a truly benevolent deity than most religious scripture.

A faith that requires frequent revival is obviously unhealthy.

Faith is the happy sense of security of an imprisoned mind, babbling uncomprehendingly to itself in the darkness of smug ignorance.

As long as there are fundamentalists to expose the silly side of religion, atheists will never need to recruit.

How can anyone presume to know a universal God, if his feeble comprehension of the universe extends no further than the prejudices of his own wretched little tribe?

If almighty God truly wanted infidels eradicated, wouldn't he just prevent them from having children?

Losing religion might seem the end of one's world; but indeed, it may well be the beginning.

People who believe in life after death are often confused about other things, too.

However great the power of faith, it is easily overwhelmed by the power of stupidity.

It is better to live a single life as a free thinker than a thousand as a slave to ignorance and superstition.

One night I prayed to know the truth. The next morning I found I was an atheist.

If atheists believed that there was something to pray to, they would devoutly pray for the deliverance of fundamentalists of all persuasions from the frightful and demeaning confusion born of prideful ignorance of the world about them.

If reality were determined by what people believe, everyone would be boundlessly happy.

Religion's role is to teach traditional morality; it is no more equipped to teach science, history, or ethics than it is to teach carpentry, cartography, or calculus.

I'm as spiritual as anyone; I just don't consider body and spirit to be detachable.

Had the telescope and microscope been invented first, religion never would have been.

The theologian's greatest difficulty in ascertaining the nature of the universe is his insistence upon viewing it through a stained-glass window.

If atheism can endure without government endorsement, shouldn't any religion worth believing be expected to do likewise?

Any self-respecting God would consider political support for its religion an insult.

Politicians seek the endorsement of religion, not to heighten their virtue, but to excuse their lack of it.

ATTITUDE: the loser's substitute for personality, talent, wit, culture, and charm.

FOX NEWS: faux-news.

RAP: ebonic plague.

S.U.V.: a device for inflating a deficient ego with the toxic combustion products of non-renewable resources.

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