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• The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

  Abraham Lincoln1809–1865

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  • Christianity

• A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein1879–1955Religion and Science (1930)

  • Anti-Religion
  • Morality

• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein1879–1955Science and Religion (1941)

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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