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“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”

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Book:True Education

Source: True Education

“The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder through the great boughs that half hid and half revealed the sky. Some of the boughs were already decaying, so that perhaps we began to see a little more of the sky than our elders; but the tree was sound at its heart.”

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Author:Lucy Larcom

“God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.”

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Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”

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Book:Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Source: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.”