I believe it was Magellan who said, 'The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.'
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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.Robert Green Ingersoll
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
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... the hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
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