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The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...
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God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New—the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
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I have had a "call" to literature, of a low order— i.e. humorous. It is nothing to be proud of, but it is my strongest suit... seriously scribbling to excite the laughter of God's creatures.
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In estimating worldly values the Jew is not shallow, but deep. With precocious wisdom he found out in the morning of time that some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and that over these ideals they dispute and cannot unite—but that they all worship money; so he made it the end and aim of his life to get it. The cost to him has been heavy; his success has made the whole human race his enemy...
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God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.
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Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.
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Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right.
God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).
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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
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If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries—and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."
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I am a great & sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, & all His works must be contemplated with respect.
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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
November 30, 1835
Died:
April 21, 1910
(aged 74)
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