All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. ~Tanith Lee
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature. ~Graham Cooke
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To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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