"Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or ridiculous. Secularist organizations, with their generally looser, nonhierarchical structures, lack the power to hand down and disseminate their heritage in such a systematic way."

-- Susan Jacoby

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“Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.”
“I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.”

Source : 1997 Speech at the annual conference of the Democratic Unionist Party. InThe IrishTimes,'ThisWeekThey Said', 6 Dec.
“Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.”
“Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.”
“I'm more European than anything. I've lived in America for 10 years, and I live in Florida because I like to be outdoors. I live a week in New York, and I live a week in Italy. When I'm here in Italy, I come to work at eight in the morning and usually I leave work at 10 o'clock at night. I don't even breathe the air. So that's why I like to live outside.”
“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.”
“Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.”
“Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.”

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