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Scriptures: the sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguishe

Scriptures: the sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. – Ambrose Bierce

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Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. – Ambrose Bierce

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Humor
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Ambrose Bierce
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. – Ambrose Bierce

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Telephones
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. – Thomas Jefferson

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The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of lifes wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. – Herman Hesse

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The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles? – John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1815 June 20th

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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. – Agnes Repplier, Points of View

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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