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«Or it needs only to look back over past centuries and the iniquities alike of populace, nobles, kings, and popes to perceive an almost incomprehensible futility of the beliefs everywhere held and perpetually insisted upon»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
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incomprehensible, iniquities, insisted, nobles, perpetually, popes, populace
«When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
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«We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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easy chair, God damn, jeopardy, pardon, patriots, popes, risked, stamped, statesmen
«Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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«There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.»
«The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
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dogma, evident, infallibility, popes, self evident, The Popes
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