Quote by John Updike
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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. – John Updike

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

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If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England. – Paul Harris

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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. – Ulrich Beck

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