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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.


Alfred Russel Wallace
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
Frances Wright
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We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants.
Giordano Bruno
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin
Tags: More Than Love
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.
Tony Campolo
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Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.


Anthony Hope
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Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!
Jeff Smith
Tags: Good Just Them
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
Francesco Guicciardini
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Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.


Anthony Hope
Tags: Best You Being
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
Ninette de Valois
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Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It's extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions.
Michelle Paver
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The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.
Alex Campbell
I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
Shonda Rhimes
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Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.
Martin Scorsese
Tags: Best More Than
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If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.


Ray Floyd
Tags: Best World Play
The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.
Jeff Sessions
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.


Samuel Adams
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