William Blake Quotes
'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'
William Blake
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
Rand Paul
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While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.
Sam Harris
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I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.
Bassem Youssef
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
Vikram Seth
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
H. P. Lovecraft
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
Sam Harris
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Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.
Gary Johnson
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Walter Scott
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
Gary Hamel
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Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.
Sam Harris
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
Hal Holbrook
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Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the people of God. The only way we can have personal victory in the midst of these flying arrows raining down on us is to call upon the Lord for help. It is His strength, supplied to us in our weakness, that makes victory after victory possible.
Edith Schaeffer
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Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.
Frank Abagnale
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Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.
Charles Pollock
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At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.
Soren Kierkegaard
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There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route.
Urijah Christopher Faber
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'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'
William Blake
