"Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion."

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Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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Henry Miller, American Author

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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

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"It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind."

"Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles."

"Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life."

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"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."

"The sum of all sums is eternity."

"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling."