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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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If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.
— Jim Henson
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What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic…
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I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we…
— Jim Henson
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My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
— Seth Godin
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Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from…
— Alfred Brendel
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My life is basically my work.
— Temple Grandin
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In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to…
— Haruki Murakami
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to…
— Henry Louis Mencken
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Life is basically like a soap bubble. It rides on the wind, flying here and there, and before you realize it, pop…
— Gintama
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