Quote by Garrett Hardin
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from mop

The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings. – Garrett Hardin

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A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. – Garrett Hardin

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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. – Garrett Hardin

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In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees. – Charles Eastman

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I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours. – Tom Tancredo

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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. – Margaret Atwood

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I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life. – Pete Seeger

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Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me. – Elvis Presley

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