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I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
Vera Farmiga
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Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Allan Bloom
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
Noah Webster
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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.


Thomas Paine
I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.
Tom Araya
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
Abraham Lincoln
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India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.


Gary Ackerman
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Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.


Marguerite Gardiner
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I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief.


Anthony Hopkins
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Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.


Rupert Sheldrake
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.


James Madison
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If we, as individuals, want to keep control of our democracy - rather than have a government paid for by corporate interest checks - then we have to fight back now and make sure our system reflects the belief that people, not corporations, control our democracy.
Michael Bennet
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.


James Madison
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We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
Paul Ryan
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Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.


Ralph Marston
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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.
Geoff Dyer
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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Noah Webster
We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.
John C. Calhoun
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin