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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. – Salman Rushdie

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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie

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power
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I was 21 in 1968, so Im as much a child of the 60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. – Salman Rushdie

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Religion
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. – Salman Rushdie

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Religion
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I am not going to condemn anybody. Thats where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time. – Donny Osmond

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Religion

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. – C. S. Lewis

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Religion

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits. – Andrew Greeley

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Religion

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults. – Emily Greene Balch

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Religion

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When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. – Otto von Bismarck

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Whatever you set aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking. – Julia Child

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