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Beware of the man of one book.
(Timeo hominem unius libri.)
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-Thomas Aquinas
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~If the book [the Bible]
and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it
that the book and my brain do not agree?
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-Robert G. Ingersoll
"Some Reasons Why", 1881
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The Bible is the most thought-suggesting book
in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
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-Herrick Johnson
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Read the Bible. It teaches you how to act.
Read the hymn book. It contains the finest poetry ever written. Read the
almanac. It shows you how to figure out what the weather will be. There
isn't another book that is necessary for anyone to read, and therefore I
am opposed to all libraries.
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-Hal Kimberly
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~Whenever we read the obscene stories, the
voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting
vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be
more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God.
It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize
mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything
that is cruel.
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-Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason, 1795
Part I, Chapter VII, "Examination of the Old Testament"
[NOTE: By the "Bible" Paine always means the Old Testament alone.]
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~So far as I can remember,
there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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-Bertrand Russell
"Education and the Social Order"
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~The devil can cite
Scripture for his purpose.
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-Antonio, a character in William Shakespeare's
The Merchant of Venice, 1597
Act I, scene iii
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is
one of the most singular things in all of literature.
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-Alfred North Whitehead
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