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Spread faith like wildfire, lighting the path for others to follow.
Author:
Mary Johnson
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We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.
Author:
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.
Author:
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.
Author:
Neil Young
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Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
Author:
William Yeats
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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Author:
Francis Wright
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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
Author:
Francis Wright
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We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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.
Author:
Shelley Winters
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It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
Author:
Charles Williams
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.
Author:
Paul Weyrich
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A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
Author:
Alan Watts
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
Author:
James Watson
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Author:
George Washington
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I didn't have a very religious family.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
Author:
Marcia Wallace
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It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.
Author:
Robert Vaughn
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I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.
Author:
Bjorn Ulvaeus
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And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.
Author:
Bjorn Ulvaeus
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Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
Author:
John Tyler
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That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.
Author:
Charles Tupper
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That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
Author:
Charles Tupper
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There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.
Author:
David Trimble
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The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.
Author:
Boris Trajkovski
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There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
Author:
Polly Toynbee
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Author:
Paul Tillich
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But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
Author:
Tertullian
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If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
Author:
Randall Terry
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A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.
Author:
Amber Tamblyn
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One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.
Author:
Amber Tamblyn
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An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
Author:
Antonio Tabucchi
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Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.
Author:
John Strachan
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At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
Author:
Robert Stone
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I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
Author:
David Stiers
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I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience.
Author:
Pamela Stephenson
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
Author:
J. Stedman
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On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
Author:
Charles Stanley
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All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
Author:
John Spong
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Author:
Abdolkarim Soroush
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.
Author:
Georg Solti
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But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
Author:
William Smith
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This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.
Author:
William Smith
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We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
Author:
William Smith
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So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.
Author:
Huston Smith
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Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.
Author:
Elizabeth Smith
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I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.
Author:
Erika Slezak
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Author:
Isaac Singer
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Author:
Ignazio Silone
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We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.
Author:
Bill Shuster
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The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.
Author:
Hu Shih
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But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
Author:
Hu Shih
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It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.
Author:
Hu Shih
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No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
Author:
Hu Shih
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Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.
Author:
Michael Shermer
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Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.
Author:
Robert Shea
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Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.
Author:
Robert Shea
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Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.
Author:
Jose Serrano
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I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.
Author:
Andres Serrano
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I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in the context of allowing for broad-based programs to include religious providers.
Author:
Jay Sekulow
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I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.
Author:
Pete Seeger
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I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.
Author:
Pete Seeger
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I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
Author:
Pete Seeger
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Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.
Author:
Pete Seeger
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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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I think every man who is not a religious moron likes when a woman is comfortable with watching a porn movie.
Author:
Izabella Scorupco
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However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.
Author:
James Schuyler
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The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.
Author:
Philip Schaff
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Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.
Author:
Edward Sapir
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For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
Author:
Muqtada Sadr
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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Author:
Rita Rudner
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Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
Author:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Oddly enough, George Pal always began and ended something with The Bible. All his pictures had a religious undertone. God was always there, protecting us.
Author:
Ann Robinson
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.
Author:
George Ripley
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I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.
Author:
Adam Rickitt
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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?
Author:
Anne Rice
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Author:
Joseph Ratzinger
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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
Author:
A. Randolph
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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
Author:
Ramakrishna
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Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.
Author:
Robert Rainy
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I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
Author:
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.
Author:
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.
Author:
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.
Author:
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
Author:
Sally Quinn
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Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.
Author:
Sally Quinn
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After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
Author:
Salvatore Quasimodo
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Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
Author:
Salvatore Quasimodo
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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
Author:
Salvatore Quasimodo
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I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country's track record of religious tolerance.
Author:
Georgi Purvanov
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I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
Author:
Al Purdy
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Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.
Author:
Richard Pryor
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Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
Author:
Charley Pride
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It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
Author:
Orson Pratt
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Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
Author:
Dennis Prager
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Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
Author:
Chaim Potok
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There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.
Author:
Chaim Potok
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It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.
Author:
James Polk
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I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.
Author:
Brad Pitt
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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
Author:
Walter Pater
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
Author:
Theodore Parker
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Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
Author:
Michael Palin
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I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.
Author:
Michael Palin
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.
Author:
Amos Oz
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The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
Author:
P. O'Rourke
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With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.
Author:
Frederick Olmsted
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The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.
Author:
Marvin Olasky
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I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart, and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.
Author:
Catherine O'Hara
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The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.
Author:
Rosie O'Donnell
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A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
Author:
Sandra O'Connor
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Author:
Sandra O'Connor
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Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'
Author:
Conan O'Brien
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I'm a very religious person.
Author:
Chuck Norris
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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
Author:
Peggy Noonan
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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.
Author:
Leonard Nimoy
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Author:
Reinhold Niebuhr
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And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.
Author:
Don Nickles
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
Author:
John Newman
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I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.
Author:
Francis Newman
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I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
Author:
Michael Newdow
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Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
Author:
Russell Nelson
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North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.
Author:
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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Fascism is a religious concept.
Author:
Benito Mussolini
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The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.
Author:
Margaret Murray
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Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.
Author:
Frank Murphy
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I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.
Author:
Frank Murphy
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Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
Author:
Thurston Moore
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Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.
Author:
Sun Moon
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True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.
Author:
Sun Moon
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I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.
Author:
Donna Mills
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I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
Author:
Dan Millman
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Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion.
Author:
Lisa Miller
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Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.
Author:
Keith Miller
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We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.
Author:
Keith Miller
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What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.
Author:
Keith Miller
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The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
Author:
Jeff Miller
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
Author:
Ed Miliband
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The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.
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Agnes Meyer
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My father was very outwardly religious.
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John McGahern
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Five years from now, 10 years from now, there's going to be a huge Islamic population in the world, they're going to be nationalistic, they're going to be religious, and they're going to be militant.
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Chris Matthews
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The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
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Paul Martin
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It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
Author:
Kamisese Mara
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A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
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Jena Malone
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The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.
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Henry Maine
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The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.
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Bill Maher
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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James Madison
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
Author:
James Madison
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Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.
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Jean-Francois Lyotard
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From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.
Author:
Seth Low
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
Author:
H. Lovecraft
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We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
Author:
Konrad Lorenz
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.
Author:
Sugar Leonard
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The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Author:
Jay Leno
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We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.
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Amy Lee
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I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
Author:
Joshua Lederberg
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Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.
Author:
Louis Leakey
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I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.
Author:
Wilfrid Laurier
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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
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Christopher Lasch
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Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.
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Jessica Lange
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The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.
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Christian Lange
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It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties.
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Richard Land
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Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
Author:
Joseph Lancaster
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Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.
Author:
Norman Lamm
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Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.
Author:
Norman Lamm
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No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
Author:
Norman Lamm
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Author:
Dalai Lama
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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.
Author:
Charles Krauthammer
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Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
Author:
Walter Koenig
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Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.
Author:
Horst Koehler
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I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.
Author:
Boris Kodjoe
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Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
Author:
Boris Kodjoe
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Author:
Jack Kingston
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Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.
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Richard King
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I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous.
Author:
Peter King
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
Author:
Jack Kevorkian
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The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.
Author:
Bruce Kent
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Author:
Robert Kennedy
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I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
Author:
John Kennedy
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There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost.
Author:
Moira Kelly
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Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
Author:
Maynard Keenan
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A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
Author:
John Kasich
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I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
Author:
Akhmad Kadyrov
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The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
Author:
Junius
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What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
Author:
Richard Johnson
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Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
Author:
Richard Johnson
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So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
Author:
Phillip Johnson
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Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.
Author:
James Johnson
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I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.
Author:
Donald Johanson
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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
Author:
William James
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There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
Author:
William James
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
Author:
Harriet Jacobs
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Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
Author:
Ernest Istook
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Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.
Author:
Ernest Istook
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While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.
Author:
Ernest Istook
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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
Author:
Muhammed Iqbal
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Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
Author:
Muhammed Iqbal
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
Author:
Muhammed Iqbal
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
Author:
Thomas Howard
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This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.
Author:
John Howard
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Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.
Author:
Eric Horvitz
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We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.
Author:
David Horowitz
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
Author:
Hal Holbrook
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We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.
Author:
Robyn Hitchcock
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These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.
Author:
Ethan Hitchcock
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Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.
Author:
Daniel Hill
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Author:
Abraham Heschel
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
Author:
Jack Herer
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
Author:
Lafcadio Hearn
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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
Author:
Lafcadio Hearn
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I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.
Author:
Sean Hayes
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.
Author:
Isaac Hayes
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As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.
Author:
Mark Hatfield
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While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.
Author:
Paul Harris
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While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.
Author:
Paul Harris
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There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.
Author:
Paul Harris
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I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.
Author:
Marvin Harris
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
Author:
Ed Harris
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.
Author:
Herbie Hancock
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The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.
Author:
Lord Hailsham
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
Author:
Larry Hagman
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I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
Author:
Mark Haddon
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Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism.
Author:
Jurgen Habermas
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That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true.
Author:
Simon Greenleaf
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In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
Author:
Juan Goytisolo
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The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Author:
Emma Goldman
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The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.
Author:
Arthur Goldberg
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I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.
Author:
Tracey Gold
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
Author:
Ira Glasser
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I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.
Author:
Newt Gingrich
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I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
Author:
Walter Gilbert
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I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.
Author:
Uri Geller
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The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
Author:
Stephen Gardiner
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
Author:
Maggie Gallagher
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Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.
Author:
Kenny G
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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
Author:
Barney Frank
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At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
Author:
Luke Ford
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Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.
Author:
Luke Ford
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Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.
Author:
Tom Flynn
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Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.
Author:
Emerson Fittipaldi
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But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.
Author:
Jon Fishman
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For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties.
Author:
Louis Finkelstein
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It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.
Author:
Louis Finkelstein
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Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him.
Author:
Suzanne Fields
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I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.
Author:
Jerry Falwell
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I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.
Author:
Joe Eszterhas
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As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
Author:
Recep Erdogan
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According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
Author:
Recep Erdogan
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I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Author:
Albert Einstein
