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• We have to fight for the freedom to be stupid, and smoking is one of the best ways to fight for your freedom, to be just as stupid as you can be.

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  Stupid, Fighting, Smoking

  "The Situation" with Monica Crowley, www.nbcnews.com. August 17, 2005.

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• World War II proves there's no God.

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  War, World, Prove

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

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  Blue, Sky, Rude

  "There Is No God". "This I Believe" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• That whole 99% thing, they are all in the 1% of the world. Every one of them pays a cellphone bill that is the yearly income for a family in much of the rest of the world.

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  Income, World, Pay

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• TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

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  Reality, Giving, Dying

  Penn Jillette (2012). “Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Bestselling Author of God, No!”, p.27, Penguin

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• If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

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  Punishment, Rewards, Morality

  "I’m a Christian, but I Enjoyed The Unbelievers" by Mike Lehmann, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2014.

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• The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? There’d be riots in the streets about the people we’re killing. And yet because it’s Obama, and he’s better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.

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  Reading, Differences, Numbers

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• Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family and indeed all the suffering in the world isn't caused by any omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.

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  Believe, Mean, Helping Others

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition" with Jay Allison, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

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  Art, People, Magic

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• The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.

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  Mean, Ends, Justify

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• Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

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  Government, Educated, Uneducated

  Penn Jillette (2004). “Sock: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan

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• If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

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  Mother, Suffering, Imagine

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell . . . how much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?

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  Hate, Believe, Heaven

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• Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

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  Evil, Hypocrisy, Doe

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• My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.

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  People, Libertarianism, Whole

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• The word ‘holiday’ comes from ‘holy day’ and holy means ‘exalted and worthy of complete devotion.’ By that definition, all days are holy. Life is holy. Atheists have joy every day of the year, every holy day. We have the wonder and glory of life. We have joy in the world before the lord is come. We’re not going for the promise of life after death; we’re celebrating life before death…For atheists, everything in the world is enough and every day is holy. Every day is an atheist holiday. It’s a day that we’re alive.

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  Atheist, Holiday, Mean

  Penn Jillette (2012). “Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Bestselling Author of God, No!”, p.13, Penguin

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• I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.

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  Hurt, Believe, Say Anything

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don't just read things I agree with.

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  Reading, Believe, Track

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

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  Thinking, Better Life, Evidence

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The first thing I said to myself on 9/11 was, 'There go our civil rights.' I found out by comparing notes later that George Carlin and I both said that at the exact same time. That's the first thing that popped into our head.

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  Rights, Firsts, Notes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down with disgust at "...the grace of the lord Jesus be with all. Amen." I'm sure there are lots of religious people who've read the Bible from start to finish and kept their faith, but in my self-selected sample, all the people I know who have done that are atheists.

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  Bible, Religious, Jesus

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.

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  Believe, Majority, Don't Believe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.

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  Believe, Rights, Causes

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• I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

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  Thinking, Games, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't want to pay for it. If you have to use a gun, it's not really a very good idea. Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up on the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

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  Kids, Gun, Rights

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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