Quotes
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me. – Emo Philips
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Is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s blunders? – Nietzsche
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. – Isaac Asimov
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It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. – Mark Twain
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. – Eric Hoffer
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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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Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. – Unknown
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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their…
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No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means. – George Bernard Shaw
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A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. – Texas Guinan
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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer “Present” or “Not guilty”. – Theodore Roosevelt
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop