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Voltaire

We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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The hallmark of a free society is that I may totally disapprove of what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it until I die.

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