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It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: "Whoever saw angels with sandals?" Angelo answered with another question: "Whoever saw an angel barefooted?"--Robert Green Ingersoll
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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!--Robert Green Ingersoll
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.--Adam Smith, The Wealth Of Nations (1776), 5.3.
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The Bible tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go?--Galileo
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Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
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And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.--Ecclesiastes chapter 1;verse 17 to 18.
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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also...No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (riches on earth).--(Jesus) Matthew 6:21-24.
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God has no religion.--Gandhi
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Riches make most people greedy, and so are like caravans lurching down the road to perdition. Any possession that increases the sin of selfishness or does nothing to confirm one's wish to renounce what one has is nothing but a drawback in disguise.--(Buddha) Jatakamala 5.5 & 15.
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Conscience is the most sacred of all property.--James Madison, fourth president of the United States.
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Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.--Karl Marx
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Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?--Katherine Whitehom, British journalist
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.--Susan B. Anthony
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.--Susan B. Anthony
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"Beware, beware, of reason and of science, man's highest powers, unholy in alliance. You'll let yourself, through dazzling withcraft yield, to weird temptations of the quantum field."--Mephistopheles (from the opera Faust)
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"No matter how long the night, the day is sure to come."
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