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“A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
― A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“Along with the concept of American Dream runs the notion that every man and woman is entitled to an opinion and to one vote, no matter how ridiculous that opinion might be or how uninformed the vote. It could be that the Borderer Presbyterian tradition of "stand up and say your rightful piece" contributed to the American notion that our gut-level but uninformed opinions are some sort of unvarnished foundational political truths. I have been told that this is because we redneck working-class Scots Irish suffer from what psychiatrists call "no insight".Consequently, we will never agree with anyone outside our zone of ignorance because our belligerent Borderer pride insists on the right to be dangerously wrong about everything while telling those who are more educated to "bite my ass!”
― Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
― Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Dune
― Dune
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