"Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse……" — Frances Wright
"Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding."
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48 Quotes by Frances Wright
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Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
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I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.
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Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary.…
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Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it…
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Credulity is always ridiculous.
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I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would…
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of…
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good…
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights…
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An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may…
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At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting…
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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more…
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In 1992, the federal Government actually issued more work authorizations to immigrants and temporary foreign workers than the net number…
— Ronald Reagan
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Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
— Walter Lippmann
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Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit…
— Julia Cameron
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The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
— Doug Larson
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As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to…
— Isaac Newton
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We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today.…
— Art Buchwald
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If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true.…
— Dan Barker
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You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in…
— Mary Doria Russell
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Admitting your weaknesses does not diminish your strengths: it shows your courage.
— Erin Andrews
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