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No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. – Jeremy Bentham

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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a days time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham

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I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people – not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. – Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. – C. S. Lewis

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Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. – Mark Hopkins

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I think we have to believe in things we dont see. Thats really important for all of us, whether its your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. Thats pretty much what its about. – James Caan

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