[Assam] Sacrilege on Religion

Thu Mar 16 13:56:55 PST 2006

 >*** Me too. Can't wait to see some of these being quoted in assamnet to
show how a >particular religion has all or most of the better elements
mentioned in these quotes :-).

And that religion wouldn't somehow be Buddhism? Would it? :):)

On 3/16/06, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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>  At 2:19 PM -0600 3/16/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
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>  *** Me too. Can't wait to see some of these being quoted in assamnet to
> show how a particular religion has all or most of the better elements
> mentioned in these quotes :-).
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> On 3/16/06,* Dilip/Dil Deka* <dilipdeka at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Here are some famous quotes on religion.
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> 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>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29585.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=29585><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29585.html#email>
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> *Abraham Lincoln* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Abraham_Lincoln/>*(1809 - 1865)
> * ,* (attributed)*
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> I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his
> mouth. <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1213.html>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1213.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=1213><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1213.html#email>
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> *Carl Sandburg* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Carl_Sandburg/>*(1878 - 1967)
> *
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> 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>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/950.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=950><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/950.html#email>
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> *Charles Lamb* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Charles_Lamb/>* (1775
> - 1834)*
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> 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>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2869.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=2869><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2869.html#email>
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> *D. H. Lawrence* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/D._H._Lawrence/>*(1885 - 1930)
> *
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> 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>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26882.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=26882><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26882.html#email>
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> *Eric Hoffer* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Eric_Hoffer/>* (1902 -
> 1983)*
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> Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not
> to be constrained by force.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24434.html>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24434.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=24434><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24434.html#email>
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> *Flavius Josephus*<http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Flavius_Josephus/>
> * (37 AD - 100 AD)* ,* Life*
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> 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>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/37767.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=37767><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/37767.html#email>
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> *George Burns* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/George_Burns/>* (1896
> - 1996)*
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> For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of
> the-not-worth-knowing. <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26985.html>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26985.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=26985><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26985.html#email>
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> *H. L. Mencken* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/H._L._Mencken/>*(1880 - 1956)
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> A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/193.html>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/193.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=193><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/193.html#email>
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> *James Feibleman* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/James_Feibleman/>
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> Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner
> of devotion. <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30485.html>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30485.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=30485><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30485.html#email>
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> *Jane Austen* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jane_Austen/>* (1775 -
> 1817)*,* Mansfield Park*
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> 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>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30486.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=30486><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30486.html#email>
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> *Jane Austen* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jane_Austen/>* (1775 -
> 1817)*,* Mansfield Park*
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> Such evil deeds could religion prompt.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24326.html>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24326.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=24326><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24326.html#email>
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> *Lucretius* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Lucretius/>* (96 BC - 55
> BC)*,* De Rerum Natura*
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> The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality
> touched by emotion. <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/3060.html>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/3060.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=3060><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/3060.html#email>
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> *Matthew Arnold* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Matthew_Arnold/>*(1822 - 1888)
> * ,* 'Literature and Dogma,' preface to 1883 edition, last words*
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> The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27099.html>
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> *Oscar Wilde* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oscar_Wilde/>* (1854 -
> 1900)*
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> The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never
> worshipped anything but himself.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/758.html>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/758.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=758><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/758.html#email>
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> *Sir Richard Francis Burton*<http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Sir_Richard_Francis_Burton/>
> * (1821 - 1890)*
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> 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>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27121.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=27121><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27121.html#email>
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> *Sophy Burnham* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Sophy_Burnham/>
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> 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>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27120.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=27120><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27120.html#email>
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> *Stella Terrill Mann*<http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Stella_Terrill_Mann/>
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> 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>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26814.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=26814><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26814.html#email>
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> *Steven Weinberg* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Steven_Weinberg/>*(1933 - )
> * ,* quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999*
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> 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>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29609.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=29609><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29609.html#email>
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> *Thomas Jefferson*<http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Thomas_Jefferson/>
> * (1743 - 1826)*
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> A cult is a religion with no political power.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1420.html>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1420.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=1420><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1420.html#email>
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> *Tom Wolfe* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Tom_Wolfe/>* (1931 - )*
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> 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>
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>  <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/36495.html><http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=36495><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/36495.html#email>
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> *Waiter Rant* <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Waiter_Rant/>,* Waiter
> Rant weblog, 06-21-05*
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