What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.
Sam Harris
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Do it, because you love to do it. PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. JEFFREY FRY In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great har... WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD We don't have a lot of physical evidence that you would have in a stabbing, shooting, that sort of c... ED PARKINSON Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... LISA KLEYPAS The '60s was a terrible era in a lot of ways. We do not need to relive them, and we do need to go fo... MITCH MORAN In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spend... BARBARA DE ANGELIS If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav... THOMAS JEFFERSON Sometimes you have to lose what you have in order to gain what you need. KATIE KACVINSKY I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up. "Yes," I sai... SARAH DESSEN O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN He (Donald) is thorough and very careful not to take sides when there's insufficient evidence, GORE VIDAL In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that ... APHRODITE MATSAKIS In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Y... OPRAH WINFREY I know this is going to be a close election, and I'm deeply concerned about the process, ... If you ... TOM WILSON At the end, what matters is that you tried SOTONYE ANGA What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We're asking that this court state that we would have a right to litigate that question and provide ... JEFFRY HOUSE I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coh... ALAN MOORE You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. J.D. SALINGER Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that? Please try to describe the picture as ... DEYTH BANGER There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
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