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“By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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Stephen R. Covey Quote: “By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.”

“By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Stephen R. Covey Quote: “By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.”

Stephen R. Covey Quote: “By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.”

Stephen R. Covey Quote: “By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.”

Stephen R. Covey Quote: “By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.”

Stephen R. Covey Quote: “By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.”

Stephen R. Covey Quote: “By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.”

Stephen R. Covey Quote: “By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.”

Stephen R. Covey Quote: “By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.”

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1. “A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.”

2. “You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”

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3. “Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?”

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4. “The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.”

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5. “To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.”

6. “Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.”

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7. “As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.”

8. “If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?”

9. “It is important to realize that our inability to answer a question says nothing about whether the question itself has an answer.”

10. “You don’t get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don’t know.”

11. “The core of science is not a mathematical modeling – it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.”

12. “Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.”

13. “We are all prisoners of our thoughts.”

14. “Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.”

15. “You can do what you decide to do – but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”

16. “People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.”

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17. “The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.”

18. “It is time we admitted that we are not at war with terrorism. We are at war with Islam.”

19. “Theology is ignorance with wings.”

20. “I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.”

21. “The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments, and a passionate unwillingness to do so.”

22. “This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.”

23. “If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?”

24. “We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.”

25. “The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.”

26. “You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible – and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world.”

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27. “Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don’t have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.”

28. “Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds – and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.”

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29. “We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.”

30. “Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.”

31. “If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won’t matter how successful you become or who is in your life – you won’t enjoy any of it.”

32. “Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.”

33. “Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.”

34. “Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.”

35. “The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.”

36. “The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally.”

37. “The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn’t, we will kill you.”

38. “Faith enables many of us to endure life’s difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.”

39. “Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.”

40. “Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath – and the God of Nature too. If you can’t see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.”

41. “The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.”

42. “What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about ‘right’ and ‘wrong,’ or ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?”

43. “You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don’t like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.”

44. “The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.”

45. “Some beliefs are so dangerous that it may be ethical to kill people for believing them.”

46. “The second commandment is “Thou shall not construct any graven images.” Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?”

47. “The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.”

48. “All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.”

49. “The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.”

50. “This is how you play tennis without the net.”

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