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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.
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From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His protection, should quit the care of all the rest, and come to die in our world, because, they say, one man and one woman had eaten an apple?
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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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The more we bestow the richer we become.
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Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
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The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.
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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt
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I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.
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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
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His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same manner, or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.
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The art of publicity is a black art but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.
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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.
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Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.
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Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time.
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The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.
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Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.
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There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.
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From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.
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I believe in one God, and no more and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.
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