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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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For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or…
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As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes…
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president,…
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Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a…
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He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That…
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Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.
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The American people are desperately seeking a Moses to lead them out of the wilderness, back to the land of milk and…
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And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? / And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed…
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