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If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix...: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005), Generation of Swine
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"
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...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)
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
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards: Alexander Jablokov "The Place of No Shadows"

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