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“It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.”

Different Matter Form Sides Atheism Ought Citizens Regard Positive Atheism Accepted Pursuit Artistic Axioms

Book:The American Commonwealth: Vol. 4: Illustrations and Reflections & Social Institutions

Source: The American Commonwealth: Vol. 4: Illustrations and Reflections & Social Institutions

“What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.”

Self America Form Buddhism Seeking Maps

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.”

Form Science Quality Buddhism Shapes Grammar

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.”

Self Form Discovery Various Self Discovery Mysticism Mixtures Eclectic

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our results show that babies' minds are built to look for such rules - even without being told.”

Mind Humans Looks Shows Form Results Baby Evolution Computer Built Program Universal Property Core Abstract Human Mind Grammar

Author:Gary Marcus

“It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The fact before us is that all ideas of gods can be traced to the earliest stages of human history.... There is an unbroken line of descent linking the gods of the most primitive peoples to those of modern man. We reject the world of the savage; but we still, in our churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, perpetuate the theories he built upon that world.”

“Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.”

“All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.”

World Should Past Form Can Do Atheism Positive Atheism Dogmatic

Author:Theodore Dreiser

“The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large as the Pentagon's budget, dozens of fatted PACs, and the well-advertised support of the Christian deity.”

Needs Wells Christian Form Levels Party Support Atheism Republican Lows Positive Atheism Budgets Officials Dozen Deities Pentagon Low Level Pacs Cadre

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.”

Men Needs Feels Ends Enough Helping Form Atheism Higher Mass Positive Atheism Sensible Higher Power

Author:Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

“Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family, so that meant that we had to kill and eat our animal friends. When you do that you are aware of the sacrifice that someone is making so that you may live. My mother always made sure we were thankful for those precious gifts.”

May Made Form Mother Animal Poor Growing Up Growing Sacrifice Atheism Taught Positive Atheism Farms Reverence Precious Gifts Animal Friends

Author:Roger Fouts

“Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.”

Form Literature House Church Views Numbers Rounds Towers Chimneys Abbey Westminster Spires Steeples Westminster Abbey

Book:Travels in England in 1782

Source: Travels in England in 1782

“Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.”

Ideas Form Literature Differences Students Western Former Guts Latter Poetry Is

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.”

Ifs Humans War Form Literature Individual Human Beings Support Drug Concepts Lips Defense Sovereign War On Drugs Lip Service

Author:Neal Boortz

“It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods.”

Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

“Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.”

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“Read books that expand you, that are bright. See films, plays, art forms that elevate your consciousness, that bring you into a sense of how beautiful this world is, how beautiful other worlds are, how beautiful nirvana, the transcendental is.”

World Art Book Play Beautiful Film Form Consciousness This World Mysticism Other Worlds Transcendental Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people are like psychic sponges, they drain power form others constantly. They lower your awareness because they are at a lower level. If you spend too much time with them, you get pulled down.”

People Ifs Form Levels Too Much Awareness Losing Mysticism Psychics Drains Sponges Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I'd think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.”

Thinking Should Said School Lasts Film Form Night Saws Basketball High School Decided Yeah Pops Last Night Wade Free Throw D Wade

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from which all the images of the enemy are created. By studying the logic of paranoia, we can see why certain archetypes of the enemy must necessarily recur, no matter what the historical circumstances.”

Persons War Matter Form Certain Enemy Study Atheism Circumstances Members Normal Logic No Matter What Historical Positive Atheism Paranoia Archetype Pathology

Author:Sam Keen

“Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.”

Writing Form Father Church Atheism Positive Atheism Portions Fierce Grotesque Church Fathers

Author:William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.”

Form Fall Sun Atheism Eternal Positive Atheism Lifts Atoms

Book:Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam

Source: Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam

“I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.”

Men Form Religious Common Atheism Doctrine Like Me Terrified Peril Common Man

Book:The World Is My Home: A Memoir

Source: The World Is My Home: A Memoir

“Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.”

People Ifs Humans Made Reason Form Cities Compassion Atheism Land Destruction Positive Atheism Cruelty Insult Display Devoted Deities Solemn Oath Pact Human Cruelty

Author:Ernest Renan

“An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.”

Believe Important Sometimes Philosophy Form Natural Views Atheism Theory Amount Mets Tradition Fundamentals Positive Atheism Guides Genuine Allegiance Scientism Natural Science Primacy

Book:Atheism and Theism

Source: Atheism and Theism

“It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around.... It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narrative form, to discover a theory or a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.”

Way Firsts Believe Facts Form I Believe Process Cases Atheism Theory Evidence Historical Positive Atheism Narrative Wiser Accord Emerging Generalization Arranging

Book:Practicing History: Selected Essays

Source: Practicing History: Selected Essays

“In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.”

World Play Form Desire Literature Individual Differences Identity Baby Models Concepts Impulse Classic Interaction Multiple Kaleidoscope

Author:Toni Morrison

“You are a child of the universe, "fearfully and wonderfully made." In the history of creation, there has never been anyone like you. Accept this reality about yourself- that you are a special, unique human being who has a place on this earth that no one else can fill. Acknowledge yourself as a glorious expression of your loving Creator. This healthy self-love will form the foundation of a joyful and satisfying life. Then, as you love and accept yourself, your inner light will shine outward to bless and heal your fellow human beings.”

“Change is a natural form of progression.”

Form Natural Progression Natural Forms

Author:Trey Songz

“If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.”

Ifs Art Form Culture Bigger Finance

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I'm not attached to a certain scene. There was certain music - and techno was a part of it - that really formulated something for me, that really was a direct connection to what I experienced in my life. Going to parties and listening to techno at home helped form my musical identity. And that changed throughout my life.”

Home Form Certain Party Identity Changed Listening Scene Direct Connections Musical Techno

Author:Pantha du Prince

“People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.”

People Want Form Social Highest Mouths Advertising Primaries Interaction Word Of Mouth Social Being

Author:Stephen Covey

“I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.”

Form Actors

Author:Benjamin Bratt

“Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.”

Wells Form Tragedy Storytelling Cameron

Author:Carlton Cuse

“In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.”

Art Form Wonder Creating Pages Starting Storytelling Blank Creating Something Blank Pages

Author:David Copperfield

“I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.”

Thinking Want Government Form Racism Discrimination Horrible Spheres Horrible Things Discrimination And Racism

Author:Rand Paul

“My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.”

Form Creative Sitting Therapy Paris Be Creative Couches Therapists

Author:Julie Delpy

“Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.”

World Way Wells Art Form Culture Grows Growing Up Style Grew Grew Up Dresses Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:LeCrae

“An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating.”

Kind Persons Self Form Mother Differences Interesting Like You Type African American Insult Dozen Insulting Self Deprecating Jewish Humor

Author:Terry Gross

“I exercise regularly; I make it a point to spend some time in the gym. It is important for people to enjoy their exercises, so choose a form of exercise that makes you happy.”

People Important Form Enjoy Exercise Gym Make You Happy

Author:Rain

“The Government covers their own ass from things they fail to do to protect its own people from corporations that control the government, which is the reason we don't have checks and balances in this country. They checked how much balance they needed to influence congress and all the other branches of government in some way, shape, or form, and cash is king.”

People Way Country Reason Government Form Failing Influence Kings Needed Balance Shapes Protect Congress Checks Ass Corporations Branches Cash Branches Of Government

Author:Immortal Technique

“My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.”

Ifs Want Art Hard Form Fun Can Do Creative Hard Work My Favorite Wave Having Fun Be Creative Surfing Favorites Things Do Whatever You Want Just Have Fun

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“Surfing is very special and unique. It's really hard to explain unless you've tried it. It's being out in the ocean in the sun, the water on your skin, and the adrenalin rush when you catch a wave. You have to be creative so it's like an art form in a way.”

Way Art Hard Form Water Sun Creative Special Ocean Unique Skins Wave Be Creative Surfing

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“I don't trust art that promises a 24-hour joyride. In fact, there seems to be a modern sense of entitlement for such constant "ups," which is a repugnant attitude any way one chooses to look at it. I definitely believe in the possibility of happiness, though; it's just something that I think, rightfully, is rare in its genuine form, and that it can't be counterfeited.”

Thinking Way Believe Looks Art Facts Seems Form Hours Attitude Modern Possibility Promise Constant Genuine Entitlement Don't Trust Sense Of Entitlement

Author:Chris Ware

“I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.”

Thinking Facts Reality Faces Form Political Social Economic Inevitable Social Equality Political Equality

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.”

Form Baseball Relate Charm

Author:Vin Scully

“One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.”

Feels Film Form Fiction Pieces Wall Baby Becoming Adults Science Fiction Fats Shakes Chairs Feds Laziness Floating Poignant Portrayal Pixar Cusp

Author:Nick Offerman

“Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.”

Government Form Democracy Forms Of Government

Author:Winston Churchill

“What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer, peasant, and professional man.”

Men Body Together Form Class Teach Importance Profession Peasants Labourers

Author:Adolf Hitler

“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.”

Needs Firsts Book Ideas Stories Form Ability Accepting Novel Guts Imperfect Uncertain Revision

Book:Conversations with Bernard Malamud

Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud

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