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"The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values."
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"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."
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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."
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"Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony."
Nature
"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."
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"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."
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"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people."
People
"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history."
History
"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."
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"To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public."
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"In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival."
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"It isn't what you don't know that's the problem. It is what you're unwilling to ask."
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"People seize to investigate the truth when things are been repeated constantly."
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"On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it."
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"If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers."
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"I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."
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"Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry."
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"Ask questions. The secrets of life are hidden in questions, so ask wisely."
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"Use 'Why?' to help you follow the breadcrumbs back to the source of the problem."
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"In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to discover crucial features of the world. Data and observations, in the sciences, have an instrumental character. They are of no particular interest in themselves, but only insofar as they constitute evidence that permits one to determine fundamental features of the real world, within a course of inquiry that is invariably undertaken under sharp idealizations, often implicit and simply common understanding, but always present."
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"We may differ on many things, but what we respect is freeinquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement betweenProfessor Stephen Jay Gould and Professor Richard Dawkins,concerning "punctuated evolution and the unfilled gaps in post-Darwinian theory, is quite wide as well as quite deep, but we shallresolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual excommunication."
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