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"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
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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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"Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth."
"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
"If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians."
"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."
"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."
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