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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.: Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), "The Root of All Evil", Channel 4 UK, 2006
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 1931
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.: Robert Jackson
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Step with care and great tact And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act Just never forget to be dexterous and deft And never mix up your right foot with your left.: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), Oh, the Places You'll Go
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.: Dean Acheson, in Wall Street Journal, September 8, 1977
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.: J. William Fulbright (1905 - )
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.: Eugene Ionesco (1909 - 1994)

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