"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

Whitman, Walt on self-confidence   

"No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve."

Munro, Hector Hugh on atheism   

"Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up."

Miller, Arthur on character
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"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?"

Lec, Stanislaw J. on progress   

"Always strive to excel, but only on weekends."

Rorty, Richard on excellence   

"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."

Seneca on anxiety
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"What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?"

Kupcinet, Irv on society
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"Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on society   

"It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own."

Samuel, Herbert on tolerance
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"Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods."

Lewis, C. S. on faith
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"The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on anarchism
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