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

"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."

"Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted."

"One shouldn't be labelled a cynic just because one refuses to believe in fairy tales."

"I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories."

"I don't do metaphysics. Neither do I have the luxury to talk about my beliefs."

"Round numbers are always false."

"I don't like psychiatrists, Alecto told her. "Not because they don't think I'm real, but because they have no idea what they're doing."

"I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book."

"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!"
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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."

"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."
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