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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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Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup…
— Robert Wagner
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Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing…
— John Gummer
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In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act…
— Thomas Reid
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Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
— Pasquier Quesnel
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Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long…
— Wallace Stegner
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resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand…
— Samuel Richardson
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Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in…
— Thomas Paine
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Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally…
— Robert Fulghum
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We approve of premarital sex until we have a daughter.
— Nikhil Saluja
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