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Religion and slavery are incompatible.
Incompatible Religion Slavery
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Consider Essential Foundation Hold
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Destiny Each Enabling Help
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The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

America Circumstances Come Essence
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Fatal Indifference Nothing Religion
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Art Creation Essentially Finished
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Deep Nonsense Religion Science
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I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

Society Shaped Rules Bum
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Cause Considered Difference Friend
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If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Christian Die Enough Epitome
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I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Distinguishing Fashionable Glory God
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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Childish Count Hold Ignorance
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Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

All Religions Always Any Established
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Country Good Religion World
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Brethren Country Good Mankind
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

Complete Final Gathered Modification
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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Everyone Fear Himself Invisible
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

Calms Doubt Much Naught
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

Belief Flesh Wiser Blood
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Common Common People False People
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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Confined Conflict God Great
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Convinced Know Literature Little
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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Morning Religion Resources Sunday
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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Altar Church Church And State Contributions
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Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Atheism Bigots Complete Fanatics
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Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Awaiting Burial Concerned Conditions
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Control Gives Knowledge Man
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Religion Spirituality Without You
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Christian Doubted Equally General
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Answer Any Asked Because
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

About All Religions Am Buddhism
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I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

Active Actress Actually Around
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Go Need Out Paint
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Stillness Teaching Vehicles Around
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving

Love Religion Business Family
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We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what or who or how God is. You know, I think that religion kind of messes people up in that regard. That's just my own personal philosophy.

Ability Believe Church Define
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It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Experience Fear Mixed Mystery
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Against Asked Bite Religion
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Derives Desires Fact Falls
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.b

Books Could Court Ghetto
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Always Becomes Born Important
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As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.

Barriers Beat Begin Between
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That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

Between Big Big Difference Christianity
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I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

Believe Church Church And State I Believe
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I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.

All People Being Believe Certain
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Evolved Fear Fraud Friend
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

About Against Argument Charity
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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Acknowledged Freedom God Law
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Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Always Our Place Religion
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All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

All Religions Every Every Man Get
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