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Historical
Founding Fathers
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"A casual stroll through an asylum will show that faith
proves nothing."
- F. Nietzsche
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as much as you
please."
-- Mark Twain
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It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bothers me - it's the parts that I do understand-
- Mark Twain
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
--Marie Curie
"The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because
one wishes it to be so."
Louis Pasteur
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and
hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-- Albert Einstein
"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and
then tax it out of business?"
-- Will Rogers
"Bigamy is having one wife too many.
Monogamy is the same."
-Oscar Wilde
"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to
doubt."
--H. L. Mencken
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and
to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his
children smart"
-- H.L. Mencken
"The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person
who reads it."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by
the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
- Seneca the Younger
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