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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is…
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When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody…
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Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.
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The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another,…
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No one ever takes my side.
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You know, people always talk about how Jesus came down to Earth as a human being. He became a human being, But…
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If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.
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Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously. The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I…
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Illl just have to make these moving on moves sooner like you did with someone new good bye so long hope who…
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