"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets - most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth."

Belief, Philosophy, Politics, Truth, Rest

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"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets - most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth."

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Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potential moral units- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence."

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"A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart.If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'."

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Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I'm agnostic," I told him. "I'd be an atheist, except I believe in hedging my bets."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

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"I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created-but I believe there has to be something."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Before believing something, check the facts. False beliefs can infect and affect the mind."

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"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."

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"We acquire the strength we have overcome."

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"If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground."

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"A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches."

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