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the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.


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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.



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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.



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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.



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The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.



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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.



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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.



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The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.



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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.





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We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become.



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