"Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the ...

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...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
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"I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.
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"Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. N...
"Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the spec...