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> [“The specific use of folks as an exclusionary and inclusionary signal, designed to make the speaker sound like one of the boys or girls, is symptomatic of a debasement of public speech inseparable from a more general erosion of American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/the-specific-use-of-folks-as-an-exclusionary-and-inclusionary-signal/)

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## More by Susan Jacoby

> [If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/if-enough-money-is-involved-and-enough-people-believe-that-two-plus/)

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> [There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/there-could-be-no-more-powerful-argument-against-mixing-religion-and/)

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> [If you chose a particular religion, you were siding with the government religion of whatever region you were in. That's never been true in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/if-you-chose-a-particular-religion-you-were-siding-with-the/)

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> [“The specific use of folks as an exclusionary and inclusionary signal, designed to make the speaker sound like one of the boys or girls,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/the-specific-use-of-folks-as-an-exclusionary-and-inclusionary-signal/)

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> [People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/people-think-that-that-conversion-to-judaism-is-just-a-modern/)

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> [Atheism is not a religion. One of the things, in fact, that atheism lacks are the kinds of rituals that religion does provide and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/atheism-is-not-a-religion-one-of-the-things-in-fact-that-atheism/)

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> [Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/once-the-roman-catholic-church-in-the-west-became-the-church-most/)

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> [I no more believe in the God of the Jews than I believe in any God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/i-no-more-believe-in-the-god-of-the-jews-than-i-believe-in-any-god/)

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> [The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/the-more-intelligent-and-competent-a-woman-is-in-her-adult-life-the/)

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> [“For if freethinkers did not have a political platform, they nevertheless agreed on a wide range of social, cultural, and artistic concerns, which generated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/for-if-freethinkers-did-not-have-a-political-platform-they/)

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> [We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/we-do-want-our-fellow-citizens-to-respect-our-deeply-held-conviction/)

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> [For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to a priest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/for-one-thing-the-catholic-church-in-particular-has-this-one-thing/)

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> [I think people who love each other and live together and have children together need to agree on the things that are most important…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/i-think-people-who-love-each-other-and-live-together-and-have/)

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> [I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/i-have-always-regarded-the-development-of-the-individual-as-the-only/)

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> [A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/a-person-can-be-religious-and-still-respect-secular-values-and-not/)

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