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“I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.”

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Author:Erich Fromm

“I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.”

“The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.”

Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason... But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.”

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Author:William of Conches

“Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.”

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Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary

“I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to "God" are all answered at about the same 50% rate.”

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Book:The Best of Brain Droppings

Source: The Best of Brain Droppings