"Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt……" — Walter M. Miller, Jr.

"Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history."

— Walter M. Miller, Jr.

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22 Quotes by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Walter M. Miller, Jr. has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But…
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one…
Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly…
I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery,…
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became…
Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

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Theology is a science of mind applied to God. — Henry Ward Beecher
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right… — Miguel de Cervantes
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. — Stuart Chase
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Theology is only thought applied to religion. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If we don't rededicate ourselves to education with the same attitude Americans have applied to going to the moon and… — Meg Whitman
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. — George S. Patton
When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not… — Unknown Author

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