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Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

— Mark Kingwell The World We Want (2000)

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It wasn't atheism and corruption they feared, but inquiry.

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Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

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Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

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I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

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Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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