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Religion Quotes by Annie Besant
- No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
- India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.
- A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant…
- Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine;…
- You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of…
- India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is…
- The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on…
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- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
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