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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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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I…
— Anton Chekhov
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When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because,…
— Alexander Alekhine
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The simple answer as to why we get fat is that carbohydrates make us so; protein and fat do not
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When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm.…
— Pat Robertson
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There is no simple answer to what I think.
— Sean Parker
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The media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the…
— Pat Roberts
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How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?
— John Diamond
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Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that…
— Terry Pratchett
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Perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to…
— Ronald Reagan
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Why all of these broken homes? What happens to marriages that begin with sincere love and a desire to be loyal and…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to…
— Eleanor Duckworth
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