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“I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do.”

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Charlie Crist, born on July 24, 1956, is a former Governor of Florida. He has been an active participant in American politics, holding various roles that have shaped his political career. more

“In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act toward us, if we were in his circumstances and he in ours; or more generally - What we approve in others, that we ought to practise in like circumstances, what we condemn in others we ought not to do.”

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Book:Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays

Source: Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays

“Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.”

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Book:The View From Nowhere

Source: The View From Nowhere

“My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.”

Source: Clapton: The Autobiography

“Man was destined for society. His morality therefore was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong merely relative to this. This sense is as much a part of his nature as the sense of hearing, seeing, feeling; it is the true foundation of morality... The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body.”

“We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.”

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Book:The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man

Source: The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man

“Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.”

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Book:The Nature of Necessity

Source: The Nature of Necessity

“Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would think-though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one-that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.”

Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume

“Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had no fossils at all, and still the evidence for evolution from other sources, such as molecular genetics and geographical distribution, would be overwhelmingly strong. On the other hand, evolution makes the strong prediction that if a single fossil turned up in the wrong geological stratum, the theory would be blown out of the water.”

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Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

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