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The faith that education would destroy intolerance is false. It may be partly true, but people find that intolerance is fun.

— Richard Summerbell

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People don't grow up — they just begin to overestimate their own importance.

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It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.

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Immoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect".

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All that is required of us, in our "new sexual ethic," is that we have sex in a way that favours us more than it favours our diseases.

Relationship (definition): Liaison usually involving two people and their dirty dishes.

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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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