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There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.

— Victor Borge

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I only know two pieces, one is 'Clair de Lune', the other one isn't.

The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.

What is the difference between a Nazi and a dog?
The Nazi lifts his arm.

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

(Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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