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When religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people about their victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either about them


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DAVID H. COMINS Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care...
EDWARD F. HALIFAX There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, bu...
ANNA SEWELL More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion
ALEXANDER CHASE More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
ALEXANDER CHASE There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, bu...
ANNA SEWELL There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as
they like about their ...
ANNA SEWELL But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way ...
EDMOND ABOUT It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the coun...
EDMOND ABOUT I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians,...
EDMOND ABOUT I fight fairly, and in good faith.
EDMOND ABOUT Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
EDMOND ABOUT Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of noth...
EDMOND ABOUT India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happeni...
DAVID ALMOND Life is with such all beer and skittles; / They are not difficult to please / About their victuals.
C. S. CALVERLEY People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure ...
SHARRON ANGLE If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited ...
JOHN GLENN People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, s...
NAVAL RAVIKANT It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have......
PATTY JENKINS People have heard about them or seen them practice. All of Franklin is waiting to see them. They've ...
MARIAN BROMELL Many people do not think very often about what they think about. They just let their thoughts live i...
HENRY CLOUD Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebri...
DAVE CHAPPELLE I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing...
RICK SANTELLI If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on...
DALAI LAMA Its such an individual thing-some people gained the weight back, but not as much as they had, and so...
DICK EVARTS How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's...
KEANU REEVES Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people whi...
C. JOYBELL C. I would overhear these conversations of people who show purebred dogs. They spoke about them as if t...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pat...
JIMMY IOVINE When people tell you that you aren't something or you can't accomplish your dreams, you can either c...
IMANIA MARGRIA It is more practical to make people transform their mindset about religion and religiousness and wal...
ABHIJIT NASKAR When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious pe...
DAVE BARRY Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their r...
THOMAS DUBAY People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.
GORDON STRACHAN There's no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more im...
WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people ...
BARNEY FRANK The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 yea...
GENE RODDENBERRY No one person knows much more about writing than another. I expect that when people think they know ...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer a...
JOHN GREEN When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about pro...
AL FRANKEN People either walked up to us or someone dragged them. If you didn't come to us we never knew about ...
DEANNA LASSEGARD Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about m...
KURT VONNEGUT We don't want anyone to feel intimidated. It's not about church or religion - it's about pouring com...
GWEN STOWERS Religion divides people. The task of Soviet society was to carry out a policy that made it as improp...
ALEXANDER NIKONOV Victor wondered about lots of things. He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more ab...
BRENT WEEKS Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as s...
CRISS JAMI When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.
LEWIS B. HERSHEY I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
KEN LIVINGSTONE They can get a good price for it and it's probably undervalued in their portfolio. It's not so much ...
BARBARA RYAN If people could enjoy staying together as much as they fantasize about having sex with someone outsi...
MARTIN DANSKY Other people migrate everyday and decide to become citizens of the country where they live, and I do...
HER EXCELLENCY MERLENE OTTEY When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something ...
WALTER ISAACSON This is not a case about religion or Islam or a cultural clash. It's about people who have been sued...
JEFFREY ROBBINS People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They sho...
EUGENIE SCOTT When Jews talked about external enemies,they talked about them as if they were monsters.
ELAINE PAGELS When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I thi...
BILLY BOB THORNTON One of the things that's unique about Louisiana politics is that people here have a much more re...
MARK FROST Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck,...
TIG NOTARO People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don’t much care about how...
JOHN BARNES Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know a...
TONY SNOW Good religion teaches us about a good God and encourages us to be like Him to the people of the worl...
HAROLD J. DUARTE-BERNHARDT People are not interested in knowing your Church, no matter how much You can talk about it. People w...
GOLDEN MASHEGO When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.
LEWIS B. HERSHEY That is very cool that Benjamin Franklin walked the streets here. I read about Franklin in a library...
ASHLEY JOHNSON People fight over religion, because they don't understand religion. They think reading a few Bibles,...
ABHIJIT NASKAR I let people write about whatever it is they wanted to remember about McDonald. It had to be their s...
ALICE LIENARD THOMASSY If you are talking about people who have drowned or if they have died of trauma, then there is much ...
GLENN MORRIS I never heard people speak about segregation as some great cross that they were bearing. They just w...
ED SMITH In a lot of our presentations, we don't talk much about religion because it is such a broad topic, ....
MICKEY HART There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who&#...
KEVYN AUCOIN It's hard to talk about them (politics and religion) in a way that doesn't anger people, and I often...
GLEN PHILLIPS When you do not have your clear definition of what success looks like, you tend to feel unsuccessful...
ROSETTE MUGIDDE WAMAMBE The whole basis of conserving is not about nature - it is about people. If we don't look after t...
MOHIT CHAUHAN When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.
CRAIG VENTER I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Gre...
HAMDI ULUKAYA People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobo...
ERICA O'ROURKE Americans, whether armed or not, were still looking everywhere but at social class when parsing the ...
DAN BAUM Once people got themselves settled, they turned to thinking about art that was not safe, either from...
BETSY BRADLEY They have to know they can ask for it if they want it or need it. People weren't being told about wh...
LOIS KANTER Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God
PEOPLE OF CHRIST This is a people's war, and to win it, the people should know as much about it as they can.
ELMER DAVIS Sensible men are all of the same religion. Religious sentiments cannot be stirred up within righteou...
AMIT ABRAHAM People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really. I mean, maybe they know th...
LIBBA BRAY It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as a...
WAYNE ROGERS People bitch about losing their anonymity and then get insulted when someone doesn't recognize them ...
CASEY AFFLECK If you will forget about yourself, whether or not you are making a good impression on people, what t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If [politicians] are going to go after this demographic, it's not just about the issues but about fa...
DAVID KING Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervad...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN