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"Cynicism is intellectual treason."
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"Brand-new truths are probably not Truths."
"I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodges his friends in the belly of whales, dies uttering a cry, and rises again at the end of three days; things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them."
"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."
"Round numbers are always false."
"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!"
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"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."
"What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth."
"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription."
"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."
"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."
"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."
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