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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
    The New York Times (3 December 1978)
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Benazir Bhutto Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Carl Sagan For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Beyonce Knowles For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Susan Sontag For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Ayn Rand From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Alcee Hastings Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Bono God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Campbell Brown Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Vikram Seth I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Thomas Paine I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Mark Twain I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • William Somerset Maugham I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alan Dundes I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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