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Quote by John Ruskin
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true acti

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. – John Ruskin

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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. – John Ruskin

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There is a working class – strong and happy – among both rich and poor: there is an idle class – weak, wicked, and miserable – among both rich and poor. – John Ruskin

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. – John Ruskin

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The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell. – Sean Ningen

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Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion… was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society. – William Robertson Smith

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The world is my country, science is my religion. – Christiaan Huygens

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