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Richard Dawkins Quotes: The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals.
         

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals.


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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.



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Science is the poetry of reality.



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