“I am, indeed, against all proselyters, whether they be on my side or on some other side. What moves nine-tenths of them,… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
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The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
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The spirit of gratitude is always pleasant and satisfying because it carries with it a sense of helpfulness to others; it begets… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
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The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Start as a human being in this culture, toss in madness, toss in mystical states, toss in being gay, toss in being… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
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