A Quote by William T. Vollmann

I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions.

William T. Vollmann

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William T. Vollmann
American - Novelist
Born: July 28, 1959

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

Link Wray

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S. N. Goenka

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Martin Freeman

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Jimmy Barnes

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