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“Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.” quote by Elbert Hubbard — Download Open image

“Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.”

Elbert Hubbard

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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better

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Art is nothing; it's a way.

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Library: A place where the dead lie.

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“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.”

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The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

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What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation…

Charlotte Bronte

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When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit of love for our fellow people, regardless of race, color, or creed, shall fill the world, making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of human brother- and sisterhood, until the great mass…

Helen Keller

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against…

Thomas Paine

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

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People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have…

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As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray…

Baruch Spinoza

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... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social,…

Davis McCaughey

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The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man… Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts,…

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up…

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Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second,…

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I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin - where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases - and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without…

John F. Kennedy

I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have a personal interest in their survival ... all thought the main reason for the quiet sway of religion over their country was the complete separation of church and state. I have no hesitation in stating that…

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