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In a world religion class, everyone was complicating life and existence by over-thinking... I wanted to be real, not adopt some philosophy or role...

— Edie Brickell

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Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems.

Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

Maybe you ride a different wave.
Maybe you catch another ray of the sun
That I've just begun to feel.

Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

I really thought I could give it up... But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?

Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

I don't believe in hatred anymore.
I hate to think of how it felt before
When anger overwhelms your very soul
It's hard to realize you'll ever know Love like we do.

Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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