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Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.

— Wilson Mizner

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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.

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

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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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