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• Humanism is an approach to life which encourages ethical and fulfilling living on the basis of reason and humanity, and rejects superstition and religion. The most immediate impact of living as a Humanist is that we believe this life is all there is - so what we do and the choices we make really count.

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  Believe, Impact, Choices

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• I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Believe In God, Don't Believe

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

  Stephen Fry

  Admire

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

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• Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

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  Beautiful, Ideas, Wit

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• Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.

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  Civilization, World, Destruction

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.

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  Vocabulary, People, Swear

  "Stephen Fry: Guilty", 2007.

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• When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

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  House, Despair, Looks

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• Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.

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  Night, Watches, Steady

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

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  Regret, Government, Victory

  BBC "This Week", May 19, 2006.

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• What makes a good family? Well, I suppose obviously love. Love lubricated often I think by humor. I think a family that can laugh at each other and tease themselves and who are able to be jolly with each other I think is the key.

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  Thinking, Keys, Laughing

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

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  Weather, Annoyed, Pissed Off

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

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  Stupidity, Guarantees, Authenticity

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• Weather is real. It is absolutely real: when it rains, it rains – you get wet, there is no question about it. It is also true about weather that you can’t control it; you can’t say if I wish hard enough it won’t rain. It is equally true that if the weather is bad one day it will get better and what I had to learn was to treat my moods like the weather.

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  Real, Rain, Weather

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• We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.

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  Hero, Air, Valhalla

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• My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.

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  Firsts, Facts, Kind

  Stephen Fry (2003). “The Liar”, p.35, Soho Press

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• Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

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  Philosophy, Live Your Life, Odd Things

  "Big Think Interview With Stephen Fry". bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.

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  Responsibility, Destiny, Order

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• You either get Norfolk, with its wild roughness and uncultivated oddities, or you don't. It's not all soft and lovely. It doesn't ask to be loved.

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  Oddities, Lovely, Norfolk

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• If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Clouds

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself.

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  Ejaculation, Forgiving, Kind

  Stephen Fry (2003). “The Liar”, p.16, Soho Press

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• As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself.

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  Boys, Style, Does It Matter

  "Welcome to dork talk" by Stephen Fry, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.

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• There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

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  Morality, Fit, British

  "Stephen Fry: Public anger over MPs’ expenses is ‘revolting’" by Jessica Geen, www.pinknews.co.uk. May 22, 2009.

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• It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

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  People, Freedom Of Speech, Comedian

  "I saw hate in a graveyard - Stephen Fry" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2005.

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• When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.

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  Morning, Men, Bed

  Stephen Fry (1994). “The hippopotamus”, Random House (UK)

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• Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.

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  Art, School, Winning

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