#founding

The founder of a religion must be able to turn water into wine -- cure with a word the blind and lame, and raise with a simple touch the dead to life. It was necessary for him to demonstrate to the satisfaction of his barbarian disciple, that he was superior to nature. In times of ignorance this was easy to do. The credulity of the savage was almost boundless. To him the marvelous was the beautiful, the mysterious was the sublime. Consequently, every religion has for its foundation a miracle -- that is to say, a violation of nature -- that is to say, a falsehood. No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of a miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of, nature. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life. ↗

— Jerry Yang

#experiences #founding #life #most #my life

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

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The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#alienate #amazing #because #before #consistency

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#anybody #belief #built #could #does

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. ↗

— Homer

#admirable #confounding #delighting #eye #friends

Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee. ↗

— David Limbaugh

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When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

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The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

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