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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

Salman Rushdie

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Evil Existence Expression Goodness History Ideas People Understand
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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Bad Believe Demon God Life People Spiritual
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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Change Domination Live Power Story Thinking Time True
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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Community Myself People Religious Result Writing
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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Achievement Creation Goal Innocence Legal Murder People Pursuit Terrorism
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Destroy Easy Oneself Power Room Solitude Writing

Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

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