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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

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If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

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He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you.

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Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

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Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

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I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

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Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

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