"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
-Thomas Paine
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"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."
-Thomas Paine
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"Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us."
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"One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests."
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"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law."
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"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
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"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
-J. R. R. Tolkien
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"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."
-Pearl S. Buck
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."
-Miguel de Unamuno
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"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
-H. L. Mencken
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"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."
-Albert Schweitzer
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