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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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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
— Hillary Clinton
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That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie]…
— Unknown Author
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working…
— Susan Sontag
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him…
— Maria Montessori
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Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's…
— Swami Vivekananda
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears…
— Seneca the Elder
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you…
— Jeff Hardy
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself,…
— Joseph de Maistre
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