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“The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.”

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Author:Elizabeth Bibesco

“I believe I never was more acceptable to my Master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields. I now preach to ten times more people than I would if I had been confined to the churches.”

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Author:George Whitefield

“The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.”

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Book:To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Source: To Sail Beyond the Sunset

“I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.”

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Author:John Lennon

“I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.”

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Author:Anandi Gopal Joshi

“The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions. . . . The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.”

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Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.”

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Author:Dogen

“The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.”

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Book:Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

“Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.”

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Author:Cliff Stearns

“Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.”

“If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton