"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites." ~Thomas Jefferson
"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."~The Dalai Lama
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."~Seneca
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion." ~Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln
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