The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

Richard Dawkins
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  2. Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. - E.e. Cummings

  3. Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe. - John Lennon

  4. Love, that moves the sun and the other stars - Dante Alighieri

  5. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott

More Quotes By Richard Dawkins
  1. We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see...

  2. After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the...

  3. Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired...

  4. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

  5. ...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

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