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• History does not record anywhere, at any time, a religion that has any rational basis.
  Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to face the unknown without help....
• Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe
  will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people....
• Strange, when you think of it, that of all the countless folks who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or legend as having died of laughter.
  -- Sir Max Beerbohm...
• You can now buy more gates with less specifications than at any other time in history.
  -- Kenneth Parke...
• More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads.
  One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction....
• It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
  Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance....