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“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
― Thomas Paine

“If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things.”
― Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”
― Émile Zola

“If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.”
― James Frey