[Assam] Sacrilege on Religion

Thu Mar 16 12:19:38 PST 2006

I throughly enjoyed these. Great stuff for future use.

On 3/16/06, Dilip/Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>  Here are some famous quotes on religion.
> Dilip
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> When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my
> religion. <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29585.html> [image: [info]]<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29585.html>[image:
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> *Abraham Lincoln <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Abraham_Lincoln/>(1809 - 1865)
> *, *(attributed)* I won't take my religion from any man who never works
> except with his mouth. <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1213.html> [image:
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> *Carl Sandburg <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Carl_Sandburg/> (1878
> - 1967)* I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their
> father's religion, if they can find out what it is.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/950.html> [image:
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> *Charles Lamb <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Charles_Lamb/> (1775 -
> 1834)* It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart,
> not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to
> you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2869.html> [image:
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> *D. H. Lawrence <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/D._H._Lawrence/>(1885 - 1930)
> * The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but
> the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26882.html> [image:
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> *Eric Hoffer <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Eric_Hoffer/> (1902 -
> 1983)* Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations,
> and not to be constrained by force.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24434.html> [image:
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> *Flavius Josephus <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Flavius_Josephus/>(37 AD - 100 AD)
> *, *Life* The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a
> good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/37767.html> [image:
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> *George Burns <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/George_Burns/> (1896 -
> 1996)* For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in
> terms of the-not-worth-knowing.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26985.html> [image:
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> *H. L. Mencken <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/H._L._Mencken/> (1880
> - 1956)* A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/193.html> [image:
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> *James Feibleman <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/James_Feibleman/>* Everybody
> likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30485.html> [image:
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> *Jane Austen <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jane_Austen/> (1775 -
> 1817)*, *Mansfield Park* It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as
> the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the
> nation. <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30486.html> [image: [info]]<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30486.html>[image:
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> *Jane Austen <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jane_Austen/> (1775 -
> 1817)*, *Mansfield Park* Such evil deeds could religion prompt.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24326.html> [image:
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> *Lucretius <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Lucretius/> (96 BC - 55
> BC)*, *De Rerum Natura* The true meaning of religion is thus not simply
> morality, but morality touched by emotion.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/3060.html> [image:
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> *Matthew Arnold <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Matthew_Arnold/>(1822 - 1888)
> *, *'Literature and Dogma,' preface to 1883 edition, last words* The true
> mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27099.html> [image:
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> *Oscar Wilde <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oscar_Wilde/> (1854 -
> 1900)* The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never
> worshipped anything but himself.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/758.html> [image:
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> *Sir Richard Francis Burton<http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Sir_Richard_Francis_Burton/>(1821 - 1890)
> * To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is
> the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information
> within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our
> intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle
> it out for himself or herself.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27121.html> [image:
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> *Sophy Burnham <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Sophy_Burnham/>* Whatever
> God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless
> man cooperates. <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27120.html> [image:
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> *Stella Terrill Mann<http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Stella_Terrill_Mann/>
> * With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things
> and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things,
> that takes religion. <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26814.html> [image:
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> *Steven Weinberg <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Steven_Weinberg/>(1933 - )
> *, *quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999* Say nothing of my
> religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world
> is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the
> religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29609.html> [image:
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> *Thomas Jefferson <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Thomas_Jefferson/>(1743 - 1826)
> * A cult is a religion with no political power.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1420.html> [image:
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> *Tom Wolfe <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Tom_Wolfe/> (1931 - )* Angels
> dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a
> dying child. <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/36495.html> [image:
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> *Waiter Rant <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Waiter_Rant/>*, *Waiter
> Rant weblog, 06-21-05*
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