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Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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