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The third and, given due consideration, most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favor.


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ALAN MOORE Faith is for sissies who daren't go and look for themselves.
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ALAN MOORE Each day and every deed’s eternal, little boy. Live them in such a way that you can bear to live w...
ALAN MOORE Nite Owl II: But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to...
ALAN MOORE It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.
ALAN MOORE If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.
ALAN MOORE When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could ...
ALAN MOORE Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.
ALAN MOORE Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
...
ALAN MOORE When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right...
ALAN MOORE It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everyb...
ALAN MOORE No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.
ALAN MOORE See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum... and one night, one night they decide they don'...
ALAN MOORE Is it possible, I wonder, to study a bird so closely, to observe and catalogue its peculiarities in ...
ALAN MOORE Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be availa...
GWEN MOORE Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best se...
HENRY MOORE You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...
HENRY MOORE If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.
GREG MOORE