"An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often."
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"The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary."
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"Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims."
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"In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc."
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"The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy."
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"Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final."
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"Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?"
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"The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd."
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"Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young"
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"Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well."
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"Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted."
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"Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life."
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"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."
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"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."
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"If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned."
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"There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject"
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"A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her."
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"The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it"
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"I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel."
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"Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies."
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