"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
-Edmund Burke
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"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.“
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"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together."
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"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
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"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
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"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."
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"You can never plan the future by the past."
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"Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race."
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"Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken."
-Lemuel K. Washburn
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"I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl."
-Vince Neil
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"Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism."
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"Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand."
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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
-John Woolman
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