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"Religion is the last refuge of human savagery."
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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."
"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."
"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."
"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."
"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."
"Religion is a cultural relic inherited from ancient civilizations that doctrinal influence persists globally in modern times. Religious people rely upon their notional belief in the primal innocence of human beings in order to support the abstract supposition of inherently benevolent God guiding human souls."
"Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure."
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."
"The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue."
"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't."
"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."
"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
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