Norman Dorsen Quotes

Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but because when the government acts on the basis of religion it discriminates against those who do not "believe" in the governmentally favored manner.

Norman Dorsen

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• Atheism
• Secular
• Humanism

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• I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.

  

  Sam Graves
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  • Small
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• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
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• You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • People
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  • God

• I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Work
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• Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Family
  • Future
  • Freedom

• Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Freedom
  • Religion
  • Chinese

• No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Genius

• Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

  

  Chet Baker
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Seems

• Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Experience
  • Door

• Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Good
  • Business
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• Let us honor the Holy Ghost.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Spirit
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• Some people eat the tuna, some people roll it up into a ball. Also, the sort of disgusting texture and smell, I think, adds something to the experience.

  

  Alex Timbers
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Writing
  • She
  • Pain

• Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Happiness
  • Constitution
  • Possibilities

• If we add state capitalism to the Bush administration's success in eroding both the US Constitution and the power of Congress, we may be witnessing the final death of accountable constitutional government.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • Constitution
  • Congress
  • Capitalism

• America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.

  

  Will Herberg
  • America
  • Christian
  • Religious

• Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Purpose
  • Duty

• Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but because when the government acts on the basis of religion it discriminates against those who do not "believe" in the governmentally favored manner.

  

  Norman Dorsen
  • Constitution
  • Atheism
  • Secular