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- The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
- James Gould Cozzens
- Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
- Roy Blount Jr.
- I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
- Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
- The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".
- H. Allen Smith
- Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
- Sir Robert Hutchison
- Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
- Unknown
- It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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