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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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social-justice
religion
humor
prayers
ridicule
satire
social-life
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Voltaire |
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The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.
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humour
politics
ridicule
idiocy
ideas
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Bill Maher |
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Altho' I rarely waste time in reading on theological subjects, as mangled by our Pseudo-Christians, yet I can readily suppose Basanistos may be amusing. Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. If it could be understood it would not answer their purpose. Their security is in their faculty of shedding darkness, like the scuttlefish, thro' the element in which they move, and making it impenetrable to the eye of a pursuing enemy, and there they will skulk. [ ]
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the-trinity
trinity
ridicule
priests
christians
weapon
superstition
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Thomas Jefferson |
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What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
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ridicule
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John Bunyan |
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ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
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ridicule
self-denial
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Louisa May Alcott |
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Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
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imagination
l-engle
walking-on-water
ridicule
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Madeleine L'Engle |