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George Washington participated as a vestryman in his local congregation, but that didn't really imply any particular kind of religious belief. This was necessary in order to participate in the society.
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The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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I think that if you are a resolute, unswerving atheist, you have that sense that you are conscious of the God-shaped hole that has been left in the wake of any religious belief, and in a way, one is much more drawn to articulate why it is that certain places, or certain experiences, have a kind of power.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary.
Matt Gonzalez
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The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.


Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.


Thomas Sydenham
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Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.


Jim Barksdale
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.


Alexander Pope
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.


Wole Soyinka
Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.


Ambrose Bierce
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.


Mark Twain
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Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.


John Zimmerman
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I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.


Liam Neeson
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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.


Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.


William Cowper
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.


George Bernard Shaw
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