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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
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Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.
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Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!
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Public credit is suspicion asleep.
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Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.
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The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.
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