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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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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted…
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He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.
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The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.
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Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before…
— Bill Walton
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To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself…
— Annie Dillard
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My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled…
— William Carlos Williams
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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
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A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose…
— Jim Butcher
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I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated…
— Agnes Varda
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Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave…
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