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“Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.”

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Paul Kurtz was a prominent American philosopher, writer, and advocate for science. Born on December 21, 1925, and passing away on October 22, 2012, Kurtz is known for his contributions to scientific rationality, atheism, and liberal thought. more

“It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But the word "God" means that He is infinite goodness. If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore God does not exist.”

Ifs World Mean Doe Two Seems Would Be Evil Goodness Infinite Contrary Destroyed God Exists

Book:Summa Theologica, (Complete)

Source: Summa Theologica, (Complete)

“The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in Italy in 1951. The proportion of Vietnamese living on less than $2 a day has dropped from 90 per cent to 30 per cent in twenty years. The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better.”

Years Done Today Poor Rich Twenties Average Proportion Mortality Cents Infant Mexican Long Life Living On Vietnamese Nepal Britons Infant Mortality

Author:Matt Ridley

“New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.”

“By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare.”

Children Age Encouragement Average Welfare Household Discouragement Ratios

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“One classic paper compared the effects of right-to-work laws on factory jobs in neighboring counties, on either side of a right-to-work border. It found that manufacturing grew 23.1% faster between 1947 and 1992 on the anti-union side of the divide.”

Jobs Law Found Sides Effects Grew Paper Unions Faster Borders Classic Divides Factories Manufacturing County

Author:Edward Glaeser

“Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.”

Years Joy Lying Passion Sports Pleasure Youth Thirty Ashes Darling Careless Thirty Years Pompeii Thirty Years Old

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.”

Way Looks Permanent Psychoanalysis Fads

Author:Peter De Vries

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