“Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell.”
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 18
Context: "I had a teacher... He said there were three kinds of people in life: winners, losers and fighters. Winners made him sick with their arrogance, losers made him sick with their whining, and fighters made him sick with their stupidity." "In which category did he put himself?" "He said he had tried all three and nothing suited him." "Well, at least he tried. That's all a man can do, Lake. And we shall try."
“We must prove design before we can infer a designer.”
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/shly310.txt
Alternate: Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred. http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/shelleydeism.htm
The Necessity of Atheism (1811)
"Morning After," (l. 1-6), from Shakespeare in Harlem (1942)
“Curse on the man who business first designed,
And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind!”
Complaining of Absence, 11; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 26
“Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.”
Message, linux-kernel mailing list, 2005-07-31, IU, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0507.3/2331.html,
2000s, 2005
“There is nothing more powerful than the made-up mind.”
TED Talk: Mind-Shifting Everest Swim, July 2010 http://www.ted.com/talks/lewis_pugh_s_mind_shifting_mt_everest_swim.html
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