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Luck is statistics taken personally.


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Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.



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Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.



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If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.



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In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.



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I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.



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Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.



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It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.

It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.



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It would bring tears in your eyes to make you think of all those years, the type of brain-washing that this man will use in America to keep us separated from our own people.



For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves.

For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves.




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