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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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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
— Mark Twain
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A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he…
— David Gemmell
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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a…
— Unknown Author
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Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks…
— Adolf Hitler
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Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
— G. Stanley Hall
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Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.
— Teresa of Avila
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.
— Louise Wilder
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No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple…
— J. Lawton Collins
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Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.
— Alexander Suvorov
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He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to…
— Laozi
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Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in…
— Lewis Mumford
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