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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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Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.
— Norman Rockwell
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For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the…
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
— Madame de Stael
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There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever…
— H. M. Tomlinson
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Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is…
— Karl Popper
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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach…
— Seneca the Younger
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As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack…
— Alcibiades
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Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray,…
— Thomas Paine
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If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be…
— Ivan KlÃma
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My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have...…
— Richard Rorty
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
— Farley Mowat
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