December 2009
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“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the...”
– Winston Churchill
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“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common...”
– Stephen Jay Gould
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“We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most...”
– Stephen Jay Gould
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“He’d had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“By then all stores of food had given out and murder was everywhere upon the...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“He shook his head. You’re asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“He could not construct for the child’s pleasure the world he’d lost...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet....”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
– Voltaire
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“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
– Voltaire
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“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say...”
– Voltaire
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“Those who, with increasing noise, are insisting that free speech can only be...”
– Philip Hensher
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“Is a tolerant society one in which you tolerate absurdities, iniquities and...”
– Rowan Atkinson
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“The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”
– Bertrand Russell
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“It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate,...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”
– Granville Hicks
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“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted...”
– Laurence Peter
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“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”
– Bernard Berenson
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“The kingdom of heaven promised us certain things: it promised us happiness and a...”
– Philip Pullman
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“He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We...”
– Philip Pullman
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“What work do I have to do then?” said Will, but went on at once,...”
– Philip Pullman
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“Maybe sometimes we don’t do the right thing because the wrong thing looks...”
– Philip Pullman
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“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were...”
– Philip Pullman
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“If you can approach the world’s complexities, both its glories and its horrors,...”
– Daniel C. Dennett
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“In his youth the world had been a bud and he a beetle in its heart, enfolded by...”
– Elspeth Huxley