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Blind belief is dangerous.
Kenyan Proverb
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All Faith is false, all Faith is true:
Sir Richard F. Burton
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold Toynbee
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We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.
John Kerry
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Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T.S. Elliot
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
Thomas Jefferson
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Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
Margaret Cho
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Louisa May Alcott
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What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.
Phil Donahue
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I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
Northern Exposure
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A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
William Arthur Ward
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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.
Oprah Winfrey
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Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
Marva Collins
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.
Samuel P. Huntington
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I count religion but a childish toy,
Christopher Marlowe
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To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin Franklin
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!
William Wordsworth
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There is danger in both belief and unbelief.
Phaedrus
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If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
Thomas Fuller
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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
Cicero
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal
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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
Shelley Winters
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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
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No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Louisa May Alcott
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We are not separate from spirit, we are in it.
Plotinus
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Out of the frying pan into the fire.
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Seneca
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
Horace
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I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
Themistocles
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A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
Homer
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Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
John Lennon
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George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise.
Al Gore
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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