Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

E. O. Wilson
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  3. Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices. - Roy T. Bennett

  4. Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today. - Roy T. Bennett

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  2. You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all...

  3. If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

  4. Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

  5. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

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