“Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.”
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
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“Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.”
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“I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.”
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