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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
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The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither…
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take…
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and…
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"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more…
— Kenny Smith
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For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.
— Charles Bukowski
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And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become…
— Rowan Williams
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Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we…
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The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can…
— George Will
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When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities.…
— Kimon Nicolaides
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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
— Thomas Paine
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Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
— Jerry Saltz
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Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only…
— Charles Bukowski
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