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Quote by Norman MacCaig

“I just didn't want to shoot other people.”

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Norman MacCaig was a Scottish poet known for his profound depictions of the Scottish Highlands and natural landscapes. His poetry style was unique, characterized by concise and expressive language, which was beloved by readers. more

“When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the test with flaws corrected, they withdraw their original claims. They do not defend them by arguing irrelevantly that the failed replication was successful in some other way, or by making intemperate attacks on whomever dares to criticize their competence.”

Way Results Successful Failing Atheism Tests Scientist Claims Originals Dare Positive Atheism Arguing Experiments Fantastic Repeats Flaws Criticize Competence Replication

Author:Martin Gardner

“The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.”

Should States Church Atheism Absolutes Separation Taxation Church And State Separation Of Church And State

Author:James A. Garfield

“I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted as suited any Supreme Court Justice or White House incumbent. That amendment had built a wall, with the ecclesiastical estate on one side and the civil estate on the other.”

Source: Neither King Nor Prelate: Religion and the New Nation, 1776-1826

“What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.”

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Author:Edwin Gaustad

“Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential good, but with equal clarity they saw the religions of existing institutions and religions based on a fixed scriptural revelation as meddlesome, wrong-headed and hopelessly obsolete.”

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Author:Edwin Gaustad

“In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent.”

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