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"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable."

"The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it."

"Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples."

"It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any."

"When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church."

"If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them."

"Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have."

"I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church."
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"We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them."


"The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in."


"Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it."


"The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test."


"Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?"
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