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descrips[0] = "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. <br>-Henry David Thoreau"
descrips[1] = "Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. <br>-Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.";
descrips[2] = "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. <br>-Albert Einstein";
descrips[3] = "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. <br>-Albert Einstein";
descrips[4] = "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. <br>-Arthur Schopenhauer";
descrips[5] = "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. <br>-Buddha";
descrips[6] = "Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. <br>-Mahatma Ghandi";
descrips[7] = "You must be the change you wish to see in the world. <br>-Mahatma Ghandi";
descrips[8] = "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. <br>-Bertrand Russell";
descrips[9] = "In politics stupidity is not a handicap. <br>-Napoleon Bonaparte ";
descrips[10] = "It does me no injury, for my neighbor to say that there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. <br>-Thomas Jefferson"
descrips[11] = "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. <br>-Voltaire";
descrips[12] = "What is wanted is not the will to believe but the wish to find out. <br>-Bertrand Russell";
descrips[13] = "Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down. down. Amen!' If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it. <br>-Dan Barker";
descrips[14] = "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. <br>-Stephen Roberts";
descrips[15] = "Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. <br>-Isaac Asimov";
descrips[16] = "Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock. <br>-Anaxagorus";
descrips[17] = "There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling -absolutely essential to mental health and happiness. <br>-Dan Barker";
descrips[18] = "Once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational - the powers of reason are suprisingly ineffective in changing the believer's mind. <br>-Steve Allen";
descrips[19] = "One of the bad effects of an anti-intellectual philosophy is that it thrives upon the errors and confusions of the intellect. Hence it is led to prefer bad thinking to good, to declare every momentary difficulty insoluble, and to regard every foolish mistake as revealing the bankruptcy of intellect and the triumph of intuition. <br>-Bertrand Russel";
descrips[20] = "The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. <br>-Sir Francis Bacon";
descrips[21] = "It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown. <br>-Dan Barker";
descrips[22] = "Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. <br>-Bertrand Russell";
descrips[23] = "What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the christian church... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.  <br>-Martin Luther";
descrips[24] = "There is something feeble about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! <br>-Bertrand Russell";
descrips[25] = "It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. <br>-Giordano Bruno (burned at the stake)";
descrips[26] = "There is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. <br>-Bertrand Russell";
descrips[27] = "The bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. These stories are retreads. But, tell a Christian that -- No, No! What makes it doubly sad is that they hardly know the book, much less its origins. <br>-Isaac Asimov";
descrips[28] = "You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? <br>-Dan Barker";
descrips[29] = "The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. <br>-Thomas Paine";
descrips[30] = "Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry; imagination.  <br>-Max Planck";
descrips[31] = "This crazy person [Galileo Galilei] wants to turn upside down the whole astronomy, but the Holy Book tells us how Josua told the Sun stay still, not the Earth  <br>-Martin Luther";
descrips[32] = "To affirm that the Sun is at the centre of the universe and only rotates on its axis without going from east to west, is a very dangerous attitude and one calculated not only to arouse all Scholastic philosophers and theologians but also to injure our holy faith by contradicting the Scriptures <br>-Cardinal Robert Bellarmino, (imprisoned and tortured Galileo)";
descrips[33] = "To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. <br>-Cardinal Robert Bellarmino (during the trial of Galileo)";
descrips[34] = "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt.  <br>-Bertrand Russell";
descrips[35] = "If you think that your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based on faith, you will realize that argument is useless and will result to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting and distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education'. <br>-Bertrand Russell";
descrips[36] = "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. <br>-Albert Einstein, obituary in New York Times, 19 April 1955";
descrips[37] = "I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being. <br>-Dan Barker";
descrips[38] = "If god is as loving and merciful as some religions claim, then I'm sure he will forgive those of us who think logically. If he is as vengeful and cruel ans other religions warn, then who would want to live with a tyrant like that? <br>-Frank Zappa";
descrips[39] = "The very concept of sin comes from the bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage? <br>-Dan Barker";
descrips[40] = "Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants. <br>-Alfonso X";
descrips[41] = "Naturally, since the Sumerians didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything. <br>-Isaac Asimov";
descrips[42] = "The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles. <br>-Louis D. Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice";
descrips[43] = "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. <br>-Socrates";
descrips[44] = "A mind once stretched by new thoughts can never regain its original shape. <br>-Einstein"
descrips[45] = "The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves --- from 'justifying' ourselves. <br>-Nietzsche"
descrips[46] = "All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth comes only from the senses. <br>-Nietzsche"
descrips[47] = "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. <br>-Nietzsche"
descrips[48] = "Madness is rare in indivduals, but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is rule. <br>-Nietzsche"
descrips[49] = "To become wise, one must wish have certain experiences and run, as it were, into their gaping jaws. This, of course, is very dangerous; many a wise guy had been swallowed. <br>-Nietzsche"
descrips[50] = "One has watched life badly if one has not also seen the hand that considerately ---kills. <br>-Nietzsche"
descrips[51] = "The Christian resolve to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. <br>-Nietzsche"
descrips[52] = "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. <br>-Albert Einstein"
descrips[53] = "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. <br>-Albert Einstein"
descrips[54] = "It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no reason whatsoever for supposing it to be true. <br>-Bertrand Russell"
descrips[55] = "I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable for its own sake. You are not second-class in the universe, deriving meaning and purpose from some other mind. You are not inherently evil--you are inherently human, possessing the positive rational potential to help make this a world of morality, peace and joy. Trust yourself. <br>-Dan Barker"
descrips[56] = "I believe in God, only I spell it N-A-T-U-R-E. <br>-Frank Lloyd Wright"
descrips[57] = "Intelligence is the only moral guide. <br>-Robert G. Ingersoll"
descrips[58] = "What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer. <br>-Bertrand Russell"
descrips[59] = "Truth never damages a cause that is just. <br>-Gandhi"
descrips[60] = "Faith, must be enforced by reason, When faith becomes blind it dies. <br>-Gandhi"
descrips[61] = "Reason gives us knowledge; while faith only gives us belief, which is part of knowledge, and is, therefore, inferior to it.... it is by reason alone that we can distinguish truth from falsehood. <br>-Chillingsworth"
descrips[62] = "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. <br>-Voltaire"
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