"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."
-Thomas Paine
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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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"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
-Phyllis Diller
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"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses."
-William Arthur Ward
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"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
-Thomas a Kempis
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
-J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain."
-Nagarjuna
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"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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