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Paine, Thomas. Rights of man. Part the second. London: J. S. Jordan, 1792.

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Paine, Thomas. "Rights of Man Part the second." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Marx, Karl. Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtspilosophie [On the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Law]. Frankfurt, 1927.

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Marx, Karl. A Critique of Hegel's "Philosophy of Right". Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Tertullian. De Praescriptione Haereticorum [On the Prescription of Heretics]. c. 1892, ch. 7.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

Edmund Burke

Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, May 11, 1792

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Burke, Edmund. Address on Petition of the Unitarians. House of Commons. 11 May 1792, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on the Petition of the Unitarian Society." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin Classics, 1999.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Beatrice Potter Webb

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Webb, Beatrice Potter. My Apprenticeship. Cambridge University Press, 1979, ch. 2. Originally published by Longmans, Green and Co., 1926, ch. 2.

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Hitchens, Christopher. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 2007, ch. 5.

A myth is a religion in which no-one any longer believes.

James K. Feibleman

Understanding Philosophy

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Feibleman, James K. "The Earliest Greek Philosophers." Understanding Philosophy: A Popular History of Ideas. Horizon Press, 1973, ch. 3.

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James, William. "The Value of Saintliness." Gifford Lecture. c. 1902, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Lecture.

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James, William. "The Value of Saintliness." The Varieties of Religious Experience, edited by Martin E. Marty. Penguin Classics, 1982.

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The Quran. c. 630, 2:256.

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The Quran, translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford University Press, 2005, ch. 2.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

Tertullian

Ad Scapulam

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Tertullian. Ad Scapulam [To Scapula]. c. 217, ch. 2.

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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Murray, 1819, canto 2, st. 34.

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Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 2, st. 34.

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Freud, Sigmund. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, lecture 35. Originally published as Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1933, lecture 35.

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Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason, Part I. London: Joel Barlow, 1794.

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Paine, Thomas. "The Age of Reason, Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (1794)." Selected Writings of Thomas Paine, edited by Ian Shapiro and Jane E. Calvert. Yale University Press, 2014.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651, pt. 1, ch. 12.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 12.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Various Thoughts, Moral and Diverting." Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. 1st ed, London: John Morphew, 1711.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)." Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings, edited by Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Borges, Jorge Luis. "Deutsches Requiem." Sur, Feb. 1946.

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Borges, Jorge Luis. "Deutsches Requiem." The Aleph and Other Stories, translated by Andrew Hurley. Penguin Classics, 2004.

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Speech in Washington, DC. Seventeeth Annual Convention of the National Woman Suffrage Assoociation. Jan. 1885, Washington, DC, USA.

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When Clowns Make Laws for Queens, 1880-1887. Vol. 4, Rutgers University Press, 1997.

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Life of Pi. Directed by Ang Lee, Haishang Films/Dune Entertainment/Gil Netter, 2012.

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Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Reason in Religion, edited by Marianne S. Wokeck and Martin A. Coleman. Vol. 7, The MIT Press, 2014, bk. 3, ch. 1. Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.