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- [Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would…
- How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? How sure am I of…
- It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna…
- It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever…
- Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us…
- There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president…
- I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to make sure of…
- Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their…
- My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's…
- Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.
- You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made…
- It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the…
- There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a…
- We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who…
- To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one…
- Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold…
- Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear…
- Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.
- The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not…
- People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.
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- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
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- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle