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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
Religion

"People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad."

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Mark Thomas Comedian
Religion

"The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
Religion

"Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
Religion

"When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things."

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