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“Believe in God, in His providence, in a future life, in the recompense of the good; in the punishment of the wicked; in the sublimity and truth of the doctrines of Christ, in a revelation of this doctrine by a special divine inspiration for the salvation of the human race.”
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“People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error.”
Source : George Jacob Holyoake (1896). “English Secularism: A Confession of Belief”, p.18, Library of Alexandria
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“I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.”
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“I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me”
Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.1, Bantam
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“A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing, higher education, philanthropy, and media... these individuals exercise a preponderant influence over what is passed off as public information and democratic discourse.”
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“If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.”
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“"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"”