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“Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.”

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Norman Ralph Augustine is a distinguished businessman. Born on July 27, 1935, he is renowned for his remarkable achievements in the field of business. 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.”

Church Christianity Atheism Huge Elements Bases Positive Atheism Believer

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.”

Government Atheism Deeds Positive Atheism Good Deeds Enmity Amity

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.”

Father Natural Saws Atheism Equal Enlightenment Institutions Positive Atheism Clarity Fixed Revelations Founding Sympathetic Obsolete Meddlesome

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.”

“A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude that, if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of their pleasing vision.”

Ifs Mind May Stills States Loss Vision Practice Atheism Regret Positive Atheism Suspense Superstitions Skepticism Multitudes Awakened Inquisitive Inquisitive Minds

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons.”

Virtue Atheism Battle Angel Guilt Positive Atheism Demon Fierce Adversaries

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes

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