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“I sought out the laws which govern nature, solid or ethereal, and after much pondering I perceived that the Universe had not been formed as its pretended Creator would have us believe; I knew that all that exists, exists of itself and not by the caprice of Iahveh; that the world is itself its own creator and the spirit its own God. Henceforth I despised Iahveh for his imposture, and I hated him because he showed himself to be opposed to all that I found desirable and good: liberty, curiosity, doubt.”

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Author:Anatole France
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“I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they'd get more out of life… You meet the right person at the right time and they fulfil a certain something in your life. You fulfil something in theirs. But there's a time limit to that. Unless you choose to be bloody good company for the rest of your life, do you know what I mean?”

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Author:Laura Marling
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“I sovrani sono soltanto gli schiavi del trono, e ad essi è interdetto assecondare gli impulsi del cuore. Ho sempre desiderato morire nubile perchè un giorno si potesse leggere sulla mia tomba questa iscrizione: "Qui giace la regina vergine". Ma i miei sudditi hanno espresso parere contrario, e pensano a quando non ci sarò più. Non basta che il mio paese adesso sia prospero e lieto, io devo sacrificarmi in vista della sua futura felicità e rinunciare alla mia libertà di donna nubile, il bene più prezioso che possiedo, e accettare che mi venga imposto un padrone. In questo modo il mio popolo mi notifica che sono soltanto una donna, quando credevo di aver governato come un uomo e come un re. [...] Ma una regina, che non passa il suo tempo dedita all'ozio o ad una sterile contemplazione, e che si assume i compiti più gravosi senza mai tradire il minimo sforzo dovrebbe poter evitare quella legge che rende metà del genere umano soggetta all'altra metà...”

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Author:Schiller Friedrich
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“I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"!”

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Author:H. P. Blavatsky
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“I speak a bit about physics in this book. I do so in order to see if I can convince you, as I have been convinced, that what we call common sense, our shared “knowledge” of the world we live in, is not a good indication of how the world actually works, let alone what it actually is.”

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Author:Larry Gottlieb
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“I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.”

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Author:John Quincy Adams
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“I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression that people of faith are uniformly opposed to stem-cell research is not documented by surveys. In fact, many people of strong religious conviction think this can be a morally supportable approach.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins
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“I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities that author has to offer; and that for a host of reasons the bound book is the ideal vehicle for the written word.”

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Author:Sven Birkerts
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