Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination … - John Quincy Adams

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If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I'm actually a very compulsive person. . . I'd chainsaw people.

John Quincy Adams

Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

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Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

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. . . he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. . . The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.

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I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

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