"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
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"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.“
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."
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-David Herbert Lawrence
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