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The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.

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Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

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Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.

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Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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Born: November 23, 1709
Died: November 11, 1751 (aged 41)
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