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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
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The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither…
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take…
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and…
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen…
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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
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I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!
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What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution…
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Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
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Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which…
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
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