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“Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.”

Quote by Lee Salk

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Lee Salk was a renowned American author known for his distinctive literary style and profound insights into social issues. His works span a wide range of themes, including novels, essays, and criticism. Salk's writing career began in the mid-20th century, and his works have had a significant impact on the literary world. more

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“When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.”

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Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.”

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Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.”

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“Tragedy is a literary concept.”

Concepts Tragedy

Book:Art & Design

Source: Art & Design

“If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of patriotism would have no place either in our dictionaries or our lives.”

Ifs Ideas Nations Our Lives Goodness Loyal Dictionary True Ones

Author:Max Eastman

“We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation ... we would stop it. ... If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction.”

People Ifs Feels Persons War Would Be Pain Suffering Dies Streets Six Destruction Slavery Prison Killing Breasts Throat Seconds Starvation That One Person Bowels

Author:Julian Beck

“Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.”

Way Looks Doe Happens Generations Tasks Responsible Injustice

Author:Richard von Weizsaecker

“I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.”

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Book:Best Games of Chess

Source: Best Games of Chess

“If you aren't failing, you aren't trying.”

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“The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.”

Ifs Want Believe Particular Infinite Atheist Lists Teeth Bother Fairy Agnostic Celestial Unicorn Yahweh Tooth Fairy Teapots

Author:Richard Dawkins