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• Our Jewishness is not a creed, it is ourself, our totality. Indeed, it may be fairly said that the surest evidence of your lack of seriousness in religion is the fact that your religions are not national, that you are not compromised and dedicated, en masse, to the faith.

  Maurice Samuel

  May, Facts, Said

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• War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

  Laurence Overmire

  Spring, War, Ideas

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• The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.

  Bertrand Russell

  Real, Men, Unhappy

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?

  Charles Lamb

  Fighting, Bravery, Soldier

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• Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Color, Practice

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• For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spiritual, Ideas, Support

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.51, Sahitya Akademi

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• Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Sex, Women, Law

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• We anathematize those who presume to teach or explain any other creed.

  Pope Vigilius

  Salvation, Teach

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• On politics I strive as much as possible to let my passions be for God and for the Church and for others (the Jesus Creed). I place no confidence in redemption by way of politics. The political hope ebbs and flows every 8 years now; I don't get all riled up if a Republican or a Democrat wins; I don't think it matters that much to what we are called to do on a daily basis.

  Scot McKnight

  Jesus, Passion, Winning

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• The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Attitude, School, Presidential

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• Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent that science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of science.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Intelligent, Religion, Criticism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Destiny, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4260, Library of Alexandria

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• Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Justice, Pro Life

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Book, Doubt

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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• Now I have no caste, no creed,
  I am no more what I am!

  Kabir

  Castes, Belonging

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• Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion, good manners fasting, you should be a Muslim the like of this. Let good deeds be your Kaaba and truth be your mentor. Your Kalma be your creed and prayer, God would then vindicate your honour.

  Guru Nanak

  Letting Go, Prayer, Compassion

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• Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work to build a future for your family. It's the idea that being free and independent is a great way to live. That each of us is a unique individual, with great potential. That you own yourself, and that you have the right to decide what's best for you. Americans of all races and creeds built a great and prosperous country with these libertarian ideals. Let's use them to build America's future.

  David Bergland

  Country, Believe, Independent

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• We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

  James Luther Adams

  Religious, Justice, Movement

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• We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring from a common source; Universalism, that we share a common destiny.

  Forrest Church

  Spring, Destiny, Answers

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• I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

  John Henry Newman

  Men, Giving, Arrogant

  John Henry Newman (2000). “Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England: Addressed to the Brothers of the Oratory in the Summer of 1851”, p.390, Gracewing Publishing

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• I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can
  give an account of it, who know so much of history that
  they can defend it.

  John Henry Newman

  Giving, Want, Wells

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• Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will.

  Alan Keyes

  Mother, Rights, Abortion

  Speech at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, www.keyesarchives.com. February 24, 1997.

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• If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.

  Alan Keyes

  Children, Mean, Abortion

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• I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought.

  Mortimer Adler

  Religious, Believe, Intellectual

  "A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large".

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• Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color.

  Kofi Annan

  Color, Empathy, Vision

  "Yehudi Menuhin Revered as Musician, Humanitarian / Admired by Einstein, gifted artist shared himself with the world" by Jesse Hamlin, www.sfgate.com. March 13, 1999.

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