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There are seven things that will destroy us, Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Religion without sacrifice, Politics without… — Coldheart Copy Share Image
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Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting… — George Will Copy Share Image
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Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
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