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I asked, how is knowledge found? 'You must learn how to read, little sister,' he said.

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The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane.

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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

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I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is prog...more

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Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' Yo...more

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Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

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The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.

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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.