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An anonymous voice says the biggest folly is to love the world, and that folly and desperation can look alike. It urges us to fight superstition head‑on, to expose it and make it infamous. The writer also notes that skeptics may seem neurotic, but they are just looking for facts they can’t yet fit.

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The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

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Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.

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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

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Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.

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Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

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The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

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My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

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It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who…

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Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring…

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The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough…

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The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

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Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

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There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent…

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Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a…

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But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free…

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Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we…

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The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which…

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It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address…

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The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror'…

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For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are…

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When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and…

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All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .…

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If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you…

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Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us…

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Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry…

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The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so…

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He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which…

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The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself…

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One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly.

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“Acknowledge your folly or depart from my dominions.”

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“and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only”

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They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in…

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...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness,…

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A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

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Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy,…

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“His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love…

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There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own…

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