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Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
Reza Aslan
Religion
People
Ideology
Make
Justify
Bigots
Use
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.
Richard Jefferies
Day
History
Matter
Will
Evil
Men
Own
Our
Despot
Tyrant
Sight
Bitterest
Rushed
Saddest
Most
Execute
Read
Ready
How
However
His
Hands
Serve
Eagerly
You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'
Rick Warren
Life
You
Design
Say
Drift
Through
Go
Intended
Happen
Things
Things Happen
It's easy to demonize from a distance.
Rick Warren
Distance
Easy
Demonize
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown
Happiness
Memory
Keys
Bad
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. Heinlein
Food
Science
Isolation
Patient
Way
Solution
Only
Civilized
Writers
He
Poked
Rendered
Him
Known
Stick
Tamed
Private
Provide
Cured
Where
Endure
Stages
Room
Even
Acute
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
Robert Anton Wilson
Too Much
Stupid
Too
Totally
Accidental
Common
Much
Convinced
Resemblance
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
Truth
Angry
People
Myth
Live
Tell
Dares
About
Most
Anyone
Them
Themselves
Grow
Violently
Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
Robert Anton Wilson
God
Man
Soul
Woman
Kind
Miracle
New
Force
Proves
Pregnancy
Create
Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Robert Anton Wilson
Crazy
Wrong
Course
Mean
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics
Thought
Preparation
Only
Perhaps
Which
Profession
Necessary
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life
Become
Only
Becoming
End
Capable
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
Rod Serling
Thoughts
Destroy
Weapons
Record
Simply
Suspicion
Prejudices
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
Rudyard Kipling
Women
People
Beauty
Francisco
Insane
Insane People
Mad
City
Remarkable
Part
Perfectly
Most
Women Are
San
San Francisco
Inhabited
Whose
I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.
Sean Hannity
Faith
Family
Simple
Country
Believe
Really
Keep
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.
Sharon Draper
Dreams
Me
Writing
Dreamers
Reading
Dream
Dreamer
Shall
Through
Develop
Come
Learned
Always
Create
Teaching
A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
Sholom Aleichem
Work
Morning
Man
Bachelor
Direction
Different
Who
Each
Each Morning
Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
Simon Beaufoy
Life
Real Life
Drama
Shaped
Messy
Real
Version
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
Simone de Beauvoir
Inferiority
Become
Situation
Fact
Individual
He
Does
Inferior
Kept
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone de Beauvoir
Man
Woman
Obligation
Human Being
Fear
Feeling
Heterosexuality
Restraint
Ideal
Without
Limiting
Itself
Human
Being
Either
Loving
Capable
Should
Homosexuality
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir
Overcome
Impossible
Face
Stupid
Stubbornness
Obstacle
Which
I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.
Sloane Crosley
People
Trees
See
Except
Through
Forest
The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and, I think, will always be with us.
Stan Lee
Hero
Will
Reading
Think
Lasted
Pleasure
Come
Always
Wondering
Story
Centuries
Us
Next
The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
Sue Monk Kidd
God
Creation
Our
Self
Divinity
True
True Self
Capacity
Depths
Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.
Tariq Ramadan
Truth
Consistency
Enough
Humility
Clarity
Quest
Effort
Requires
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
Thomas Paine
God
Good
Bible
Devil
Name
Just
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