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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism. – Marilyn Manson

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An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: “If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” “No,” said the priest, “not if you did not know.” “Then why,” asked the Inuit earnestly, “did you tell me?” – Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it. – Kathie Lee Gifford

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I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted. – Luke Ford

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God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done. – Stevie Wonder

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. – Wilson Mizner

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Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. “Do you believe there is a devil?” asked one. “No,” said the other promptly. “It’s like Santa Claus: it’s your father.” – Nebelspalter (Zurich, Switzerland), quoted in The Literary Digest, Vol.106, 1930

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. – Freda Adler

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