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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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant. ~Raghav Bahl
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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God. ~Rajneesh
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. ~Brandon Sanderson
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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