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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God…
— William Jennings Bryan
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It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.
— John Hagee
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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has…
— Galen Strawson
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We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and…
— Barack Obama
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Agnostics are just atheists without balls.
— Stephen Colbert
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Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus,…
— Malcolm X
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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of…
— Mother Teresa
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
— Yann Martel
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His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members…
— J. G. Ballard
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The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before.
— Lee Strobel
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