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• Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death,… — Andre Breton
• It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all… — Simone de Beauvoir
• ...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether… — Thomas Paine
• Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing… — Taisen Deshimaru
• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to… — L. Sprague de Camp
• You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them.… — Anthony F. C. Wallace
• When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and… — Sigmund Freud
• In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical… — Henry Adams
• Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,… — Thomas Jefferson
• If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so… — Jonathan Swift
• Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic… — Thomas Hood
• We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. — George Santayana

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