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->''There was an unfortunate misprint - it came out as the Large Hardon Collider. I spotted the misprint and of course I left it in, but alas, the publisher's proofreader also spotted it; she removed it; I begged her on my knees to leave it in, and she said it was more than her job was worth.''
-> Dawkins explaining a transposition error in his draft for ''The Greatest Show On Earth''
->''There was an unfortunate misprint - it came out as the Large Hardon Collider. I spotted the misprint and of course I left it in, but alas, the publisher's proofreader also spotted it; she removed it; I begged her on my knees to leave it in, and she said it was more than her job was worth.''
-> Dawkins explaining a transposition error in his draft for ''The Greatest Show On Earth''
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-->-- ''The God Delusion'', opening to Chapter 2. At least God's not anti-Semitic!
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->''"The God of the [[Literature/TheBible Old Testament]] is [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation arguably]] the most unpleasant character in all of fiction: [[CrazyJealousGuy jealous and proud of it]]; a [[DisproportionateRetribution petty]], unjust, unforgiving [[ControlFreak control-freak]]; a [[PayEvilUntoEvil vindictive]], [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser]]; a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic, homophobic, racist]], [[InfantImmortality infanticidal]], [[KillEmAll [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment genocidal]], [[WouldHurtAChild filicidal]], pestilential, [[JerkassGod megalomaniacal]], sadomasochistic, [[PsychopathicManchild capriciously malevolent]] bully."''
-->-- ''The God Delusion'', opening to Chapter 2. At OmniscientMoralityLicense not recognized here. Though there's [[FairForItsDay a]] [[SevenHeavenlyVirtues few]] [[TurbulentPriest things]] [[SelectiveObliviousness missing]]. Also, at least God's not anti-Semitic!
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->"''The God of the [[Literature/TheBible Old Testament]] is [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation arguably]] [[GodIsEvil the most unpleasant character in all of fiction]]: [[CrazyJealousGuy jealous and proud of it]]; a [[DisproportionateRetribution petty]], [[SinsOfOurFathers unjust, unforgiving]] [[ControlFreak control-freak]]; a [[PayEvilUntoEvil vindictive]], [[UnstoppableRage bloodthirsty]] [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide ethnic cleanser]]; a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain misogynistic, homophobic, racist]], [[InfantImmortality infanticidal]], [[KillEmAll genocidal]], [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment filicidal]], [[{{Curse}} pestilential]], [[JerkassGod megalomaniacal]], [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids sadomasochistic]], [[PsychopathicManchild capriciously capriciously, malevolent]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking bully]].''" [[invoked]]
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->''All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.''
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->"''The God of the [[Literature/TheBible Old Testament]] is [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation arguably]] [[GodIsEvil the most unpleasant character in all of fiction]]: [[CrazyJealousGuy jealous and proud of it]]; a [[DisproportionateRetribution petty]], [[SinsOfOurFathers unjust]], [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgiving]] [[ControlFreak control-freak]]; a [[PayEvilUntoEvil vindictive]], [[UnstoppableRage bloodthirsty]] [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide ethnic cleanser]]; a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic, homophobic, racist]], [[InfantImmortality infanticidal]], [[KillEmAll genocidal, filicidal]], [[{{Curse}} pestilential]], [[JerkassGod megalomaniacal]], [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids sadomasochistic]], [[PlotHole capri]][[PsychopathicManchild ciously]] [[MoralEventHorizon malev]][[DesignatedHero olent]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking bully]].''" [[invoked]]
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->"''The God of the [[Literature/TheBible Old Testament]] is [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation arguably]] [[GodIsEvil the most unpleasant character in all of fiction]]: [[CrazyJealousGuy jealous and proud of it]]; a [[DisproportionateRetribution petty]], [[SinsOfOurFathers unjust]], [[ThisIsUnforgivable unjust, unforgiving]] [[ControlFreak control-freak]]; a [[PayEvilUntoEvil vindictive]], [[UnstoppableRage bloodthirsty]] [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide ethnic cleanser]]; a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic, homophobic, racist]], [[InfantImmortality infanticidal]], [[KillEmAll genocidal, filicidal]], [[{{Curse}} pestilential]], [[JerkassGod megalomaniacal]], [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids sadomasochistic]], [[PlotHole capri]][[PsychopathicManchild ciously]] [[MoralEventHorizon malev]][[DesignatedHero olent]] [[PsychopathicManchild capriciously malevolent]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking bully]].''" [[invoked]]
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->"''The God of the [[Literature/TheBible Old Testament]] is [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation arguably]] [[GodIsEvil the most unpleasant character]] [[CompleteMonster character in all of fiction]]: [[CrazyJealousGuy jealous and proud of it]]; a [[DisproportionateRetribution petty]], [[SinsOfOurFathers unjust]], [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgiving]] [[ControlFreak control-freak]]; a [[PayEvilUntoEvil vindictive]], [[UnstoppableRage bloodthirsty]] [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide ethnic cleanser]]; a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic, homophobic, racist]], [[InfantImmortality infanticidal]], [[KillEmAll genocidal, filicidal]], [[{{Curse}} pestilential]], [[JerkassGod megalomaniacal]], [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids sadomasochistic]], [[PlotHole capri]][[PsychopathicManchild ciously]] [[MoralEventHorizon malev]][[DesignatedHero olent]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking bully]].''" [[invoked]]
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-> ''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 the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.''
-->-- Opening from ''Unweaving the Rainbow''
-> ''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 the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.''
-->-- Opening from ''Unweaving the Rainbow''
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