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The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

Thomas Pynchon

Book, Angel, Years

Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.52, Penguin

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On a certain day shall every soul come to plead for itself, and every soul shall be repaid according to its deeds; and they shall not be wronged.

Elijah Muhammad

Book, Soul, Deeds

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I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.

Thomas Paine

Book, Men, Holy

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Whatever good works ye send on before [death]... ye shall find with God.

Elijah Muhammad

Book, Before Death, Holy

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God has not any Holy Book; but Man has many Holy Book writers! Producing Holy Books is a cosmic crime against God! God has not spoken yet! He has been silent for billions of years, because He is out of this universe!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Book, Men, Years

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They know the outward shows of this life present but of the next life are they careless. Have they not consider the heavens and the earth and all that is between them but for a serious end, and for a fixed term? But truly most men believe not that they shall meet their Lord.

Elijah Muhammad

Believe, Book, Men

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And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you.

Elijah Muhammad

Book, Littles, Spirit

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In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain.

Jim Al-Khalili

Book, Islamic, Years

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Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

Joseph Brodsky

Dirty, Book, Winning

Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.145, Penguin UK

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Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?

Kabir Bedi

Girl, Book, Kids

FaceBook post by Kabir Bedi from Nov 21, 2012

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The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.

Abdu'l-Bahá

Book, Men, Mind

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That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes. In that world there is need of spirituality, faith, assurance, the knowledge and love of God. These he must attain in this world so that after his ascension from the earthly to the heavenly Kingdom he shall find all that is needful in that eternal life ready for him.

Abdu'l-Bahá

Book, And Love, Needs

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The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.

Benazir Bhutto

Book, Long, Pakistan

Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989”

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This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the bounty of the sun continues; and if the mirror is destroyed or ceases to exist, no harm will happen to the bounty of the sun, which is everlasting. This spirit has the power of discovery; it encompasses all things.

Abdu'l-Bahá

Book, Mirrors, Discovery

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The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.

Abdu'l-Bahá

Book, Animal, Men

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Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially possess can, however, be manifested only as a result of your own volition.

Bahá'u'lláh

Book, Tablets, Holy

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... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The one is irrevocable, the other is, as termed by men, impending. To the former all must unreservedly submit, inasmuch as it is fixed and settled. God however, is able to alter or repeal it. As the harm that must result from such a change will be greater than if the decree had remained unaltered, all, therefore, should willingly acquiesce in what God hath willed and confidently abide by the same.

Bahá'u'lláh

Book, Fate, Men

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Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.

Bahá'u'lláh

Art, Book, Giving

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[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

Lawrence M. Krauss

Book, Listening, Religion

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It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

Terry Pratchett

Book, Holy, Made

"Thud!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2005.

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In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Book, Democracy, Important

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “The Caged Virgin: A Muslim Woman's Cry for Reason”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.

Philip Pullman

Book, Order, Doctrine

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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

Ramakrishna

Religious, Book, Reading

Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Christopher Hitchens

Book, Together, Holy

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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

Richard Dawkins

Religious, Book, People

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