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Ahsan

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Ahsan’s Quotes

“As mystery and miracles took charge of the past and present, prophesy took charge of the future and rounded the tenses of faith.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

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“Apollo, the god of light, of reason, of proportion, harmony, number - Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don't look straight at the sun. Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysis, every now and then.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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“Far from being a truly independent guide to moral conducts, the…[holy books are]… like a Rorschach Test: which passages people choose to emphasize reflects as much as it shapes their moral character and interests.”
― Elizabeth Anderson

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“...the compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading

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“The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.”
― Peter Medawar

tags: critical-thinking, education

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