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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Principles Religious
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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Enough God Men Reveal
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Moments Place Soul
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline Faith Judgement Quality
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

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