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"It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all."
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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."
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"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."
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"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."
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"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."
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"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."
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"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."
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"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."
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"The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy, it is the negation of Christianity."
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"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."
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"Keep your hope in the Lord."
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"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."
Life
"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."
Science
"Time itself comes in drops."
Time
"Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver."
Life
"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."
Cause
"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."
History
"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
Attitude
"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
Act
"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."
Force
"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."
Genius
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