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“Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.”

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“Andrew Lang, The Making of Religion, Longmans, Green and Co., 1909.”

“Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.”

“Andrew Lang, Letters to Dead Authors, transcribed from the 1886 Longman's edition.”

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"If I am right, then will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites."

— Isaac Asimov

Science1920–1992

#religion

"For me, there are two kinds of women — goddesses and doormats."

— Pablo Picasso

Art1881–1973

#religion

"I think I ain't never met a normal, I mean normal, man who wasn't crazy! Loon crazy, take 'em off and put 'em away crazy, which is what they would do if there wasn't so many of them. Every normal man …"

— Samuel R. Delany

Literature1942

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"In so far as men believed that the traditional ceremonial was what God wanted of them, they would be indifferent to the reformation of social ethics. If the hydraulic force of religion could be turned…"

— Walter Rauschenbusch

Philosophy1861–1918

#religion