"Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us."
-Thomas Paine
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"Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.“
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"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes."
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"To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches."
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"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes."
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"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death."
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"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."
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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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