"Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

Joseph Campbell, American Author

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"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"When belief in a god dies, the god dies."

Harlan Ellison, American Writer

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"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

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"Well, I can't figure out God."

Oral Roberts, American Clergyman

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"It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God."

George H. White, American Politician

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"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."

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"Women and foxes being weak are distinguished by superior tact."

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"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."

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"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."

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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

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"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."

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"GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism."

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"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."

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"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

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