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"Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is."
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"Confusion is still better than conviction in the wrong!!!!"

"I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know."

"Beware of the man who's extraordinary claims end in a sales pitch."

"For the modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas on no authority. Say that a thing is so, according to the Pope or the Bible, and it will be dismissed as a superstition without examination. But preface your remark merely with "they say" or "don't you know that?" or try (and fail) to rememver the name of some professor mentioned in some newspaper; and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word you say."

"Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith."

"Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt."

"We are not alone!Everything has been orchestrated.If you think that the meteor that killed of the dinosaurs was natural. Think again!What use would a world of greed be if we had to worry about getting eaten by dinosaurs every minute of the day?It wouldn't be good for the economy, now would it?Think about it!"

"People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it."

"The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon and is later found false, the latter rejects sound answers altogether and hashes itself useless."

"Science is not a democracy. Therefore to try to pass of global warming as real just because "98% of scientists say they agree" makes no sense at all. If 98% of psychiatrists said that all mentally ill people needed lobotomized, does that make it true? If 98% of your friends jumped off a building, would you jump, too?"
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"Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not, the whole point of conversations was flow."

"There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's."

"The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase."

"Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence."

"He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome."

"The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again. Everything was not merely relative, it was--how to put it? --relevant. Representational. Revealing. Referential and reverential both."

"Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do."
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