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It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
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Janov Pelorat in Asimov's Foundation's Edge
The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
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A. Whitney Brown, "The Big Picture"
...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line."
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Tom Robbins (1936 - ), _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
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Sir Richard F. Burton
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
It was just a job. It wasn't any special interest in consumer affairs. I needed a paycheck and the Attorney General said that I would be best to go down there, because he knew I was anti-consumer.
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Dan Quayle (1947 - ), talking about his job as Chief investigator, consumer protection division of the Indiana Attorney General's office from 1970-1971
Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.
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Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
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