"I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things."
-Richard Dawkins
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"If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists."
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"The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America."
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"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."
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"I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place."
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"The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history."
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"So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place."
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"Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes."
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"In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity."
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"A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him."
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