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		It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mircea Eliade 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Taylor-Wood 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Origen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maajid Nawaz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Driver 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronger than the union of the worldly! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Said Nursi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carl Sandburg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hans Kung 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Harris 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hal Holbrook 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You're always going to have extremists in every religion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abdullah II of Jordan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dalai Lama