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From the Ted Talk by Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0

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So rgiielnos are cultures of rtteopiein. They circle the great truths again and again and again. We associate repetition with boredom. "Give us the new," we're always saying. "The new is better than the old." If I said to you, "Okay, we're not going to have new TED. We're just going to run through all the old ones and watch them five teims because they're so true. We're going to watch etiazlebh Gilbert five times because what she says is so clever," you'd feel cheated. Not so if you're adopting a religious mindset.

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So _________ are cultures of __________. They circle the great truths again and again and again. We associate repetition with boredom. "Give us the new," we're always saying. "The new is better than the old." If I said to you, "Okay, we're not going to have new TED. We're just going to run through all the old ones and watch them five _____ because they're so true. We're going to watch _________ Gilbert five times because what she says is so clever," you'd feel cheated. Not so if you're adopting a religious mindset.

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Original Text

So religions are cultures of repetition. They circle the great truths again and again and again. We associate repetition with boredom. "Give us the new," we're always saying. "The new is better than the old." If I said to you, "Okay, we're not going to have new TED. We're just going to run through all the old ones and watch them five times because they're so true. We're going to watch Elizabeth Gilbert five times because what she says is so clever," you'd feel cheated. Not so if you're adopting a religious mindset.

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