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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

~Thomas Paine

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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

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That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

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Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

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There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

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War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

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The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: January 29th, 1737

Died: June 8th, 1809

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