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"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."
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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"

"It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards."

"Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us."

"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."
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"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve."


"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."


"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."


"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."


"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
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