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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Religious

"Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture."

Real Religious Witty
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Religious

"I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now."

Lying Religious Religion
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Religious

"Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth."

Religious Powerful Growth
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James D. Watson Molecular Biologist, Geneticist
Religious

"Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology."

Religious Technology Cells
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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs"

Art Book Religious
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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
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"The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now remains to be my earnest wish & prayer, that the Citizens of the United States could make a wise and virtuous use of the blessings placed before them."

Religious Wise Freedom
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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
Religious

"The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations."

Men Country Religious
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George Will Political Commentator, Author
Religious

"Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage."

Sports Religious Greek
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
Religious

"The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust."

Men Mean Religious
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
Religious

"If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also."

Religious Literature Cosmos
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone."

Christian Religious Evil
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
Religious

"Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion."

Religious Philosophy Philosophical
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Religious

"Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything."

Country Religious Gay
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the Old Testament. There's nothing like it in the literary canon that exalts genocide, to that extent. And it's not a joke either. Like where I live, New England, the people who liberated it from the native scourge were religious fundamentalist lunatics, who came waving the holy book, declaring themselves to be the children of Israel who are killing the Amalekites, like God told them."

Children Country Religious
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Religious

"You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements of the country that have always been there but were kind of marginal to the political system, for example, religious extremists."

Country Religious Political
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"One can contrive a religious motivation for virtually any choice of action, from commitment to the highest ideals to support for the most horrendous atrocities. In the sacred texts, we can find uplifting calls for peace, justice and mercy, along with the most genocidal passages in the literary canon. Conscience is our guide, whatever trappings we might choose to clothe it in."

Religious Motivation Uplifting
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