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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

Mind

Thinking

Thoughts

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Than

Good

" 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. "

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" My mind is my own church. "

" Time makes more converts than reason. "

Thomas Paine

Than

Reason

" Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. "

" It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. "

" He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. "

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Who

Nation

" It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. "

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Believe

Man

" 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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