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The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

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A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever, but what's wrong with that, really?

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many.

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

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

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (1923)

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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