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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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"I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic."
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"Cynicism is intellectual treason."
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"Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted."
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"That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me."
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"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."
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"Doubt is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness."
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"I don't do metaphysics. Neither do I have the luxury to talk about my beliefs."
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"He was a sceptic, he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel."
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"Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child."
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"The believer claims to know, not just that God exists, but that his most detailed wishes are not merely knowable but actually known. Since religion drew its first breath when the species lived in utter ignorance and considerable fear, I hope I may be forgiven for declining to believe that another human being can tell me what to do, in the most intimate details of my life and mind, and to further dictate these terms as if acting as proxy for a supernatural entity."
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"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."
Living
"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."
Home
"I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy."
Family
"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."
Experience
"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion."
Diplomacy
"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
Man
"I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting."
Comfort
"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."
Government
"There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch."
Safety
"It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter."
Government
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