If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
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Panics, in some cases, have their uses they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered.Thomas Paine
The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale
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Virtue is not hereditary.
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If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no more than the death of any other person
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Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity
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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
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