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Thomas Edison - interview in The New York Times, Oct. 2, 1910, front of magazine section, by Edward Marshall.
Voltaire - letter to Frederick the Great, quoted in the Encyclopedia of Unbelief, Prometheus Books, 1985, p. 715.
Margaret Sanger - masthead of her newsletter, The Woman Rebel, quoted in the 1994 Women of Freethought Calendar, by Carole Gray, Columbus, Ohio.
Clarence Darrow - speech at Toronto, 1930, cited in The Great Quotations. by George Seldes, Lyle Stuart publisher, 1960, p. 190.
William Howard Taft - The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, by Harry F. Pringle, Farrar & Rinehart Inc., New York, 1939, p. 373.
Luther Burbank - San Francisco Bulletin, Jan. 22, 1926, page 1, by Edgar Waite, headline: "I'm an Infidel, Declares Burbank, Casting Doubt on Soul Immortality Theory."
Bertrand Russell - opening lines of "Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization," essay, 1930.
George Bernard Shaw - Major Barbara, preface, final paragraph.
Russell again - Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954.
Protagoras - On the Gods
Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald, fifth translation, 1889, verse 65, reprinted by Dover Thrift Editions, 1990, p. 41.
Thomas Hobbes - quoted by Rufus K. Noyes in Views of Religion, L.K. Washburn publisher, Boston, 1906, p. 30.
Baruch Spinoza - quoted by Eugene Brussell in The Dictionary of Quotable Definitions, Prentice-Hall, 1970, p. 490.
Jefferson again - vow against tyranny, letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, Sept. 23, 1800.
Freud again - father-God explanation from The Future of an Illusion, in The Freud Reader, edited by Peter Gay, W.W. Norton, 1989, p. 694-6 -- quote is from New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, cited by Seldes in The Great Quotations, p. 261.
(from Free Inquiry, winter 1996-97)
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