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If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as… — Charles Caleb Colton
Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her… — John Calvin
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid… — B.F. Skinner
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in… — Charles Darwin
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion.… — Richard Dawkins
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that… — Annie Besant
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into… — Winston Churchill
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have… — John Ashcroft
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. — W. Somerset Maugham
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. — George Santayana
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth. — Denis Diderot
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well. — Pindar
I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad… — Arthur C. Clarke
Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth.… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which… — George Washington
There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle… — Joseph Addison
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by… — Charles Dudley Warner
There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early. — Mark Twain
Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling… — Emma Goldman
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long. — Tom Baker
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. — Friedrich August von Hayek
But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers. — Ambrose
I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way. — Della Reese
We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we… — Marianne Williamson

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