Quote by Thomas Paine
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is a

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. – Thomas Paine

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War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. – Thomas Paine

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War
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. – Thomas Paine

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Happiness
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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. – Thomas Paine

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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. – Ambrose Bierce

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I think that we are at a point in our country where were trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena. – Nikki Haley

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Religion

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion. – Albert Einstein

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Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. – Clive Bell

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Suffrage is the pivotal right. – Susan B. Anthony

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First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation. – John W. Thompson

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Still waters run deep. – English Proverb

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