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• A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
• Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
• When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do…
• People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
• Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left…
• Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a…
• The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle…
• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
• To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
• The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a…
• I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the…
• 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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