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MARK PUTZKE Killing in the name of religion is a big disgrace to the religion itself.
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LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.
HENRY ROLLINS Life's Irony;The aroma of a religion is a more tasty meal than the religion itself.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The well of true wit is truth itself.
GEORGE MEREDITH The well of true wit is truth itself
GEORGE MEREDITH There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
VANNA BONTA Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
KARY MULLIS The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is re...
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JAMES TYLER KENT If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
DEEPAK CHOPRA Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord Ideological notions are strongest amongst...
ALAN RICHARDSON There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave. - Lord Byron (George Gor...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign a...
JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at le...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at l...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way.
THOMAS 'WAYNE' BRAZELL Truth is a T-Rex. Let it out and you won't need to defend it. It'll defend itself.
ABHIJIT NASKAR An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
MINNA ANTRIM Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.
BALTASAR GRACIáN God is not only true, but Truth itself
POPE LEO XIII If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism at least...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intell...
JOYCE CAROL OATES It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate ...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
ABRAHAM MASLOW There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth,...
WILLIAM SAROYAN The television industry is reinventing itself, the same way the telephone industry is reinventing it...
JEFF KAGAN Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, bu...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.
ZACHARY LEVI Truth sustains itself regardless of popular demand or propaganda; the truth stands in the end.
SCOTTIE SOMERS Smartass Disciple: Master, what do say about the truth itself ?
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TOBA BETA No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
GEORGE HERBERT Truth never needs to justify itself.
GLENN CURTIS MADDOX The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will f...
THOMAS BECKET My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker,...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal! -Much Ado about Nothing. A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Bible is the word of God and his word is life itself.
PHIL BROWN It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH It's always worked itself out in the past and this situation will work itself out too.
JEFF TRAYLOR You are the embodiment of truth itself because you are devoid of deception and treachery.
RIG VEDA Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is...
EDWARD SAPIR Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptat...
THOMAS MERTON ... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
MARK TWAIN Want Truth more than you want to awaken and the awakening takes care of itself.
MARIA ERVING There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individ...
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MARTIN HEIDEGGER The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the fo...
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The fundamental of watching to the happenings of the world is in itself wrong because looking out fo...
ANUJ SOMANY It is religion to be thus forsworn, For charity itself fulfills the law And who can never love...
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JANE STEEN The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
HITOPADESA The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
HITOADESA The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
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LORD BYRON Absence - that common cure of love.
LORD BYRON Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
LORD BYRON And when we think we lead, we are most led.
LORD BYRON Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart.
LORD BYRON It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
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LORD BYRON I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever
LORD BYRON I wish he would explain his explanation
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LORD BYRON Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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LORD BYRON I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
LORD BYRON The dew of compassion is a tear.
LORD BYRON Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
LORD BYRON I love not man the less, but Nature more.
LORD BYRON Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
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LORD BYRON The heart will break, but broken live on.
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LORD BYRON I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
LORD BYRON This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated wi...
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LORD BYRON Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
LORD BYRON It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
LORD BYRON Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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LORD BYRON I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
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LORD BYRON Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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LORD BYRON Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
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LORD BYRON Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
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LORD BYRON We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
LORD BYRON Oh! too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
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LORD BYRON For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pau...
LORD BYRON A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
LORD BYRON Goodnight
LORD BYRON With just enough of learning to misquote.
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LORD BYRON Sweet is revenge - especially to women.
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LORD BYRON Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.
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LORD BYRON Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
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LORD BYRON Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
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LORD BYRON A man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure - critics all are ready made. / Take hackney...
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LORD BYRON He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
LORD BYRON The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequen...
LORD BYRON He said / Little, but to the purpose.
LORD BYRON The tourture we desire is the greatest of all.
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LORD BYRON Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest
LORD BYRON And wrinkles (the damned democrats) won't flatter
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LORD BYRON Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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LORD BYRON The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and ...
LORD BYRON I thought it would appear / That there had been a lady in the case.
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LORD BYRON The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.
LORD BYRON I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over the...
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LORD BYRON All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage
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LORD BYRON Truth is always strange
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LORD BYRON If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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LORD BYRON A man must serve his time to every trade: Save Censure- Critics all are ready made
LORD BYRON The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars o...
LORD BYRON I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloyin...
LORD BYRON I die, - but first I have possessed, / And come what may, I have been blessed.
LORD BYRON Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.
LORD BYRON Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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LORD BYRON What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
LORD BYRON Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares ...
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LORD BYRON The best of prophets of the future is the past
LORD BYRON 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
LORD BYRON Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
LORD BYRON Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
LORD BYRON There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never
LORD BYRON Arm! Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar!
LORD BYRON Let these describe the indescribable.
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LORD BYRON I like a woman to talk or I am left with the suspicion that she is thinking.
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LORD BYRON I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
LORD BYRON With just enough of learning to misquote
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LORD BYRON When we two parted / In silence and tears,/ Half broken-hearted / To sever for years, / Pale grew th...
LORD BYRON Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
LORD BYRON The busy have no time for tears.
LORD BYRON We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not ye...
LORD BYRON What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality...
LORD BYRON Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen.
LORD BYRON A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anyth...
LORD BYRON Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there m...
LORD BYRON Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure
LORD BYRON There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
LORD BYRON The very best of vineyards is the cellar
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LORD BYRON Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit c...
LORD BYRON That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.
LORD BYRON In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
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LORD BYRON Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own r...
LORD BYRON I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
LORD BYRON In short, he was a perfect cavalier, / And to his very valet seemed a hero.
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LORD BYRON The arena swims around him - he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who w...
LORD BYRON I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart
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LORD BYRON Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded that all the Apostles would have done as they did
LORD BYRON This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
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LORD BYRON I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand.
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