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Action speaks louder than prayers |
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Amrica is like a melting pot. The people on the bottom get burned and the scum floats to the top. |
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The savior who wants to turn man into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the despot who wants to turn them into puppets |
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Religion is a reason for a cause; what is called 'atheism' is because of reason. |
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Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from science. Truth is what stands the test of eperience. |
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Don't go backwards. You have already been there. |
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Religion is a bad joke without the punchline. |
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Calling atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. |
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Belief is invincible and it is well protected by ignorance, censorship and sleight of mind. |
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The public will believe anythig, so long as it is not founded on truth. |
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What surprises me even more is that there are those who don't believe there are those who don't believe. |
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The natural world is our Bible. We don't have chapters and verses; we have tres and fish and animals. |
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If you want true freedom, get a bicycle. You can pedal your ass anywhere you want. |
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The crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves. |
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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. |
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Atheists: Born right the first time |
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Major scientific breakthrus are less often accompanied by "Eureka!" than by "That's funny...." |
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I have always admired the insular closed-mindedness which fundamentalists possess, a quality which allows them to filter the chaff from the wheat and |
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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others/ |
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. |
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In the end, clothing is part of the mask of civilization that we are trying to escape by going to nature in the first place. |
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A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. |
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Confusion: A good sign the brain still functions |
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Everybody, sooner or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences |
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Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions |
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Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil |
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Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects |
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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. |
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If I let my speech run away with me, it is because I have hatred for certain things. And you should hate them, too. they are the things that make us b |
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Belief is the beginning of chaos. Honest doubt is the beginning of wisdom. |
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Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. |
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something. |
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. |
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. |
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Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. |
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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. |
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It takes only a majority of the adult population to be fear-driven to destroy any nation, no matter how democratic. |
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Usually a person has more faith in their fear than faith in their future. |
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No group is more fearful of the truth than believers in religion (or politics). |
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A Sign of the Naked Truth |
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Men in earnest have to time to waste in patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. |
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Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shalllearn nothing. |
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FREEDOM FROM RELIGION: "All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any reli |
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. |
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Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently. |
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. |
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God hel[s those who help themselves. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Where's evil? It;s that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. |
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart. |
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. |
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Life is good, and a treasure that becomes polished only by our efforts to wear it out. |
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A Sign of the Naked Truth |
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. |
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The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twe |
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It's interesting that all of the Atheists I've ever met have the same hang-ups as True Believers. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Hapiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the byproduct of other activities. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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If atheism is a religion, then health is a disease. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Science can destroy a religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated...the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but th |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cnnot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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When insanity becomes popular, it becomes religion. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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To know a person's religion, we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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There is only on blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Goodness is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you're doing, you will be successful. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Belief gets in the way of learning. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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If Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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America is a melting pot. the people at the bottom get burned while all the scum floats to the top. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. |
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Morality is always the product of terror, its chains and straitwastcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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If man were meant to be naked, he would have been born that way. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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When faith in your self is lacking, you find yourselves being hurried by others in every possible way. At every encounter you are no longer your maste |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Just because we are a collective insanity, we must not assume that it is normal. |
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He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Happiness depends upon ourselves. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then |
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Belief is accepting something from an authority you would probably not believe if you saw it with your own eyes. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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civilization is the host and religion is the parasite. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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All of us should remember that passion clouds the judgment, and that he who seeks for victory loses sight of the cause. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Religion is an equal opportunity persecutor. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. |
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Christian America? "the state (the US Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire." |
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We are whet we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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There is no greater Hell than to be a prisoner of fear. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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The great trouble with religion--any religion--is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those pro |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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The price of greatness is responsibility. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. |
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Sacred cows make the best hamburger. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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If salvation is the cure, then atheism is the prevention. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Do you know where the disease lies which keeps you learners from reaching true understanding? It lies where you have no faith in yourself. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Fear is ... usually a sign that I'm doing something right. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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There is nothing so strong or safe, in any emergency, as simple truth. |
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A Sign of THE NAKED TRUTH. |
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Sin lies only in hurting it | | |