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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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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
— Francis Bacon
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Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.
— Clarence H. Burns
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Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
— Edward Abbey
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Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education.
— Unknown Author
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It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more…
— H. L. Mencken
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
— Zinedine Zidane
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Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current
— William Peter Blatty
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Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little…
— Dan Millman
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We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.
— Charlie Fletcher
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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
— Rudyard Kipling
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When I tell people that I'm vegan, the first question asked is, 'How do you get enough protein?' This immediately tells me…
— Robert Cheeke
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