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- It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
- 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.'
- 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."
- 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.
- Sir Richard F. Burton
- We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
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