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> [“Science lacks something very important that religion provides: a moral code. Survival of the fittest is a scientific fact, but it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-g-riddle/science-lacks-something-very-important-that-religion-provides-a-moral/)

[A.G. Riddle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-g-riddle/)

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> [Religion can be a good thing, but basically the way I look at it is that it provides a moral code, common…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-ray-pollock/religion-can-be-a-good-thing-but-basically-the-way-i-look-at-it-is/)

[Donald Ray Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-ray-pollock/)

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> [We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dewey/we-have-advanced-far-enough-to-say-that-democracy-is-a-way-of-life-we/)

[John Dewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dewey/)

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> [Organized religion may be anathema on the political Left, but the need for the things religion provides - moral fervor, meaning, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bari-weiss/organized-religion-may-be-anathema-on-the-political-left-but-the-need/)

[Bari Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bari-weiss/)

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> [“Rather than offering a strict moral code to live by, popular culture today provides more of a moral posture.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-d-fitzgerald/rather-than-offering-a-strict-moral-code-to-live-by-popular-culture/)

[Jonathan D. Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-d-fitzgerald/)

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