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We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost…

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A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a…
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should…
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not…
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits…
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can…
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his…
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the…
An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe…
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions…
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has…
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

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I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or… — Christopher Cross
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Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way. — Mike Pence
In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is… — Ted Yoho
We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when… — William Kingdon Clifford
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