"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."
-Hosea Ballou
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"Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.“
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"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams."
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"Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness."
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"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
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"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."
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"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."
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-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."
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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."
-Frederick II
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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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