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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. – T. S. Eliot

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. – Aristotle

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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, youve got to help pay for piping. And the Piper! – Abigail Van Buren

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There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I dont think my generation wants that. Thats how it used to be. – ASAP Rocky

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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. – Jane Austen

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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.. – Proverb

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He felt it, he said, an honor to wash his face, being, as it was, the temple of the Spirit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very

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