"I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.“

-T. S. Eliot

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"Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race."

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-Lemuel K. Washburn

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"I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl."

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"Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism."

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"Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand."

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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."

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