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In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Islam is not man's ultimate justification to do as he pleases--it is, instead, a religion built on reason and evidence. If each of us asks the ustaz for the causes of his religious opinions, then we should, by doing so, help realise the principles of Islam and thus improve intellectual discussion in our own community. ↗

— Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin

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Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself. ↗

— David Hilbert

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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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My life was changed in one breath from God. ↗

— Donna Summer

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In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

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There are two sorts of good wills. The one says, "I would do well, but it gives me trouble, and I will not do it." The other, "I wish to do well, but I have not as much power as I have will; it is this which holds me back." The first fills Hell, the second Paradise. ↗

— Francis de Sales

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