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My mothers family were full-on Irish Catholics – faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over womens rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old. – Geraldine Brooks

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Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books. – Geraldine Brooks

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You cant write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. Im very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. – Geraldine Brooks

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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage. – Geraldine Brooks

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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. – Henry David Thoreau

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Well, I think that Catholicisms basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think its between you and God, not you and the Church. – Martin Sheen

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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. – E. O. Wilson

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Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed. – Blanche Lincoln

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Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. – Aldous Huxley

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