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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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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does…
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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
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Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.
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It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.
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A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.
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A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to…
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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of…
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a…
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
— John Herschel
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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of…
— William Penn
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Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in…
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