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In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

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A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is…
I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy,
As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool…
The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples…
Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted…
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old…
If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does…
In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its…
Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women -…
I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous…
It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity.…

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The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet. — Jo Brand
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life,… — Richard Burton
Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success. — Robert Ringer
A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them. — William Shakespeare
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and… — Henry David Thoreau
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no… — Abraham Lincoln
We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are… — Tim LaHaye
We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new. — Gijs de Vries
The purpose of life is joy! When you're in joy, you attract the highest and best in every area of your life.… — Rhonda Byrne
You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher
I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned. — Jackie Jackson
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. — Barack Obama

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