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> [“Certainly the anonymous scarecrow portrait was intended to put him in his place, in much the same way as the philosopher David Hume was said to have dismissed Williams’s accomplishments by comparing the admiration people had for him to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chinua-achebe/certainly-the-anonymous-scarecrow-portrait-was-intended-to-put-him-in/)

[Chinua Achebe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chinua-achebe/)

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> [In fact, I think it was the philosopher Hume who argued that it's far more likely that a miracle is a new physical phenomenon that we have yet to discover and have now discovered in that moment than it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/in-fact-i-think-it-was-the-philosopher-hume-who-argued-that-it-s-far/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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