the sadist

 

“…the concept of an all loving, all merciful god laid to waste by reality…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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hopes and dreams

 

“The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable.

The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.”

 

~ Ajahn Sumedho ~

 

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peace on earth

 

“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love,

while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”

 

~ John Lennon ~

 

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imagine

 

“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled

with the entrails of the last priest.”

 

~ Denis Diderot ~

 

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love your world

 

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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PEACE

 

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

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TALK TALK

 

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

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OPIATE

 

“Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told.

Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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CORNU COPIAE

 

“All animals are equal,

but some animals are more equal than others.”

 

~ George Orwell ~

 

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THE YOKE

 

“…crawling out of the medieval muck of doctrinal bondage

is the first step to secular sensibility on the road to the stars…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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TRAPPED

 

“If one has never known freedom,

it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one’s cell.”

 

~ Nenia Campbell ~

 

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MIRACLE

 

“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall,

but wise words endure.”

 

~ Edward Thorndike ~

 

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NO ONE

 

“My body, my choice.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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MONKEY MAN

 

“When fascism comes to America,

it will be wrapped in the flag

and carrying a cross.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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DARKNESS

 

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,

and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

 

~ Helen Keller ~

 

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STAYING AFLOAT

 

“The world is filled with fools,

but none of them considers himself one,

or tries not to be one.”

 

~ Baltasar Gracián ~

 

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THE SIN OF THE CALF

 

“The God excuse, the last refuge of a man

with no answers and no argument.” 

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

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NO GOD

 

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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APOCALYPSO

 

“This is the way the world ends,

not with a bang, but a whimper.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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HATS OFF TO GOD

 

“Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear,

explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

 

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

 

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