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In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal,… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field,… — Mark Twain
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church. — Edvard Munch
When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and… — Gustave Courbet
The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons… — Billy Graham
We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging. — Pope Francis
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there? — George Bernard Shaw
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to… — Origen
When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let me just say… — Marvin J. Ashton
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions… — Alan Barth
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring… — Jacob Bronowski
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts… — Abraham Maslow
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world. — Denis Diderot
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin… — Bertrand Russell
I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion… — Galileo Galilei
Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than a right of… — Gordon B. Hinckley
What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church? [...]… — Martin Luther
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be. — Desiderius Erasmus
The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is… — Adolf Hitler
As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it… — Adolf Hitler
They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's… — Pat Robertson
The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of… — Paul Feyerabend
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize… — Albert Einstein
The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State. — James Madison
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles;… — Thomas Paine

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