"Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“The times in my life when I've been my thinnest, I've been a walking psycho wreck. Forget the fact that I was basically starving myself; skinny was usually due to some kind of loss. Death. Rejection. Divorce.”
“Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They're building it. And in the friction-free future, jacked into paradise, we'll have the 'liberty' of living (or rather, or buying the illusion of living), through the benevolent offices of a middleman as nearly omnipotent as god himself. Freedom? A more perfect captivity is difficult to imagine.”
“Without freedom there can be no morality.”
“Christians and Muslims can still get along. On issues such as global warming and helping the poor.”

Source : "Christians and Muslims". "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly", www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.
“Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.”
“In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder”
“Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course-arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.”
“Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.”

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