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Marcus Aurelius quote

 ‘Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.’
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Order?

 Facebook post from Raj Bains http://www.facebook.com/raj.bains?sk=info profile
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picture of the post Right now, it is raining methane on Titan. The planet Uranus, apparently trying to live up to its name, is orbiting the sun sideways, while Venus spins backwards. There are stars exploding, black holes gorging, galaxies, colliding. And here we sit, on a planet pock-marked by collisions, rocked by earthquakes, shaken by storms. A planet doomed to be fried in radiation as its magnetic fields collapse, until finally the sun grows into a read giant and leaves nothing of the Earth but dust. Here we sit, glasses on our noses, inhalers in out pockets, braces on our teeth, waiting to die as our heart muscle expires, our cell decide to grow forever, or a blood vessel just pops, and sometimes in unnatural ways, too. Here we sit, and some of us say, behold, look at the order of it all.
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Beliefs

 I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. -Bertrand Russell
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Lawrence Krauss

 Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
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Einstein: The Word god is product of human weakness

 "For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstition" http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/10/word-god-is-product-of-human-weakness.html This is such a great find, people always try to associate him with theology. But with this it's a definitive piece of his thoughts on theology. To have a guy like Einstein in your corner makes the argument much eaiser.
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Freedom

 When I became convinced that the Universe is natural - that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, of the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust.—Robert Ingersoll
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Thomas Jefferson

 The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson
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