"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution."

-- James Madison

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“All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.”
“You see the world much better through a camera.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.”
“When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.”
“Celebrities meet a lot of people and we just can't maintain them all in our fuddled brains.”
“I dont want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.”

Source : "Paralyzed Rep. to Showcase Gun Victims at State of the Union" by John Parkinson, abcnews.go.com. February 12, 2013.
“It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.”
“Education and prevention are not enough when there is a culture of fraud.”

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