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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

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The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

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