"People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing."

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Source : "A Double Take on Early Christianity". Interview with Mike Aquilina, touchstonemag.com.

Rodney Stark

#People Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Cost Quotes

“So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges, even the army - then you know what a dictatorship depends on for its existence.”
“We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive!”

Source : Yahoo! Chat, www.gilliananderson.ws. May 15, 2001.
“The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.”
“What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.”
“I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.”
“The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.”
“It's the things we love most that destroy us.”

Source : "Fictional character: President Snow". "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - part 1", 2014.
“I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.”

Source : Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.60, Random House

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