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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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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
— Euripides
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I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling…
— Juliet Stevenson
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All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they…
— H. L. Mencken
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Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing…
— Harry Shearer
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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is…
— Jules Renard
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People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)
— Tom Robbins
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor…
— Michel de Montaigne
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We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make…
— Thabo Mbeki
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