Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

Salman Rushdie

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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Sagan

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Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

Anne Rice

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Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Salman Rushdie

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Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

Michael Crichton

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The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.

Sarah Vowell

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