All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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It is much more enjoyable being an actor. ~Kyle Chandler
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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I love Jesus Christ with all my heart and everything He stands for. I think that sums up everything that I want for my life, everything I want for my family, everything I want for my career. I want it to be entertaining. I want people to smile and tap their toes, but I want it to be meaningful when the day is done. ~Josh Turner
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~Kathie Lee Gifford
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It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York. ~Michael Arad
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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Yeah, I think there are a lot of things about Cleveland that I miss. Los Angeles is a funny place to live. ~Monica Potter
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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