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Mark Twain |
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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. |
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Warren E Burger, |
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For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more. |
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Gore Vidal |
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. | ||
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All great truths begin as blasphemies. |
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G. B. Shaw |
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Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. |
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Euripides |
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| The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. |
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"God wishes," said Calvin, "that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory." |
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Eric Hoffer |
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Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
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Ludwig von Mises
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| The search for truth is more precious than its possession |
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Albert Einstein |
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| If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? | |||
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For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt | ||
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The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is oftent very tolerant and human. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. |
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