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The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.
Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.
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But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?
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The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.
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