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#1

“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression

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#2

“I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

tags: christian-living, insightful

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#3

“The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.”
― George Carlin

tags: argument, excuse, fallacy, god-of-the-gaps, pathetic

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#4

“Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.”
― Julian Huxley, Religion Without Revelation

tags: cheshire-cat, god, god-of-the-gaps, humor

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#5

“Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.”
― William A. Dembski

tags: biology, chance, coincidence, darwinism, evolution, god-of-the-gaps, ignorance, science, serendipity, supernatural

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#6

“People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe”
― Hippocrates

tags: epilepsy, fallacy, god-of-the-gaps, ignorance, knowledge, superstition, understanding

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#7

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― Robert Frost

tags: humor, poetry, religion

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#8

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#9

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#10

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

tags: education

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#11

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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#12

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

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#13

“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

tags: life, love, passion, writing

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#14

“Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, belief, beliefs, believe, conform, conformity, critical-thinking, crowd, funny, humor, humour, independent-thinking, insanity, majority, non-conformity, nonconformity, sanity, satire

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