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"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."
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"I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in."
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"There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves."
"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."
"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"
"Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist."
"People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout."
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