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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. – John Maynard Keynes

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My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God. – Albert Einstein

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