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Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we…
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Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents…
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It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to…
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That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility…
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This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a…
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We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not…
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If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with…
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The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization
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Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of…
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There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing…
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Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well…
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At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.
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I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are…
— Amy Adams
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iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also…
— Evgeny Morozov
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We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.
— Shirley Jones
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Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying,…
— Richard J. Foster
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On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies,…
— Seneca the Younger
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[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that…
— William Rehnquist
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The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested,…
— Anthony Kennedy
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If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens,…
— Edward S. Herman
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We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in…
— Emma Thompson
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Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing
— Ahdaf Soueif
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The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can…
— Rachael Bermingham
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no…
— Umberto Eco
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