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I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?

— Henry Rollins

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You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

Talk is Cheap Volume 1 (1998)

Knowledge without Mileage is bullshit to me.

Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'

Talk is Cheap Volume 1 (1998)

Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.

In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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