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“With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.”

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Book:The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835

Source: The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835

“God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.”

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Book:Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins

Source: Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins

“Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.”

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Book:The Red and the Black: World Classics

Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics

“The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost. The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.”

“Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.”

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Author:Vicky Beeching

“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.”

“Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.”

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Book:On Boxing

Source: On Boxing

“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.”

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Author:Voltaire

“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”

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Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy