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An intelligent woman herself, the Duchess had overestimated the Marshal’s intelligence. Not an ambitious woman, she had underestimated his ambition. So are many misread by other’s lights.

— Sheri S. Tepper Singer from the Sea (1999)

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The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

The Visitor (2002)

If a person torturing and killing people is evil, why are gods who torture and kill people called good?

The Fresco (2000)

“This is not philosophy, this is reality. Will you please keep in mind what’s going on!”

Six Moon Dance (1998)

Fear needn’t be grounded in fact to cause problems.

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

Man has always tortured in the name of his gods and committed atrocities in the name of his culture.

Sideshow (1992)

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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