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““Professional considerations made the Dean refrain from endorsing this open expression of murderous sentiment in its fullest form; a clergyman ought always to keep up some decent semblance of respect for the Gospel and the Ten Commandments -- or, at least, the greater part of them.””

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The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,…

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The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

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There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.

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The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

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The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

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