[Assam] Sacrilege on Religion

Thu Mar 16 14:10:39 PST 2006

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

*** Actually I did not have THAT religion in mind :-). But I guess it 
could be. Buddhism adherents rarely use it for political ends. The 
Sinhalese Buddhist/Tamil conflict is a exception and has a lot to do 
with the subcontinental-slants and cultural/ethnic rifts .

At 3:56 PM -0600 3/16/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>  >*** Me too. Can't wait to see some of these being quoted in 
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>And that religion wouldn't somehow be Buddhism? Would it? :):)
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>On 3/16/06, Chan Mahanta 
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>At 2:19 PM -0600 3/16/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
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>>I throughly enjoyed these. Great stuff for future use.
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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 
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>On 3/16/06, Dilip/Dil Deka 
><<mailto:dilipdeka at yahoo.com>dilipdeka at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Here are some famous quotes on religion.
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29585.html>When I do good, I 
>feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29585.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Abraham_Lincoln/>Abraham 
>Lincoln (1809 - 1865) , (attributed)
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1213.html>I won't take my 
>religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1213.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Carl_Sandburg/>Carl Sandburg 
>(1878 - 1967)
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/950.html>I am determined that 
>my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they 
>can find out what it is.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/950.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Charles_Lamb/>Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2869.html>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.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2869.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/D._H._Lawrence/>D. H. Lawrence 
>(1885 - 1930)
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26882.html>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.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26882.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Eric_Hoffer/>Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24434.html>Everyone ought to 
>worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be 
>constrained by force.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24434.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Flavius_Josephus/>Flavius 
>Josephus (37 AD - 100 AD) , Life
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/37767.html>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.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/37767.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/George_Burns/>George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26985.html>For centuries, 
>theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of 
>the-not-worth-knowing.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26985.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/H._L._Mencken/>H. L. Mencken 
>(1880 - 1956)
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/193.html>A myth is a religion 
>in which no one any longer believes.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/193.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/James_Feibleman/>James Feibleman
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30485.html>Everybody likes to 
>go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30485.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jane_Austen/>Jane Austen (1775 
>- 1817), Mansfield Park
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30486.html>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.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30486.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jane_Austen/>Jane Austen (1775 
>- 1817), Mansfield Park
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24326.html>Such evil deeds 
>could religion prompt.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24326.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Lucretius/>Lucretius (96 BC - 
>55 BC), De Rerum Natura
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/3060.html>The true meaning of 
>religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by 
>emotion.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/3060.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Matthew_Arnold/>Matthew Arnold 
>(1822 - 1888) , 'Literature and Dogma,' preface to 1883 edition, 
>last words
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27099.html>The true mystery of 
>the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27099.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oscar_Wilde/>Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/758.html>The more I study 
>religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything 
>but himself.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/758.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Sir_Richard_Francis_Burton/>Sir 
>Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27121.html>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.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27121.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Sophy_Burnham/>Sophy Burnham
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27120.html>Whatever God's dream 
>about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man 
>cooperates.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27120.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Stella_Terrill_Mann/>Stella Terrill Mann
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26814.html>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.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26814.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Steven_Weinberg/>Steven 
>Weinberg (1933 - ) , quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29609.html>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.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29609.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Thomas_Jefferson/>Thomas 
>Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1420.html>A cult is a religion 
>with no political power.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1420.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Tom_Wolfe/>Tom Wolfe (1931 - )
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><http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/36495.html>Angels dancing on 
>the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a 
>dying child.
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><> <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/36495.html#email>
><http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Waiter_Rant/>Waiter Rant, 
>Waiter Rant weblog, 06-21-05
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