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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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