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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.

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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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Blame Deep Emotion Human Kind Pain Reason
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Difficult Face Inspirational Life Motivational Myself Philosophy
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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Believe Evidence Independent Myself Observation Reason Wild
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Bad Goodness Law Taste Yourself
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.

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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.

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