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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings. ”
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. ”
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. ”
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. ”
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. ”
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ”
I believe that abortion is the taking of human life. ”
The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that. ”
If you think of human experience as a pie, then the wedge Hollywood is reflecting now is getting smaller and smaller. ”
Soundness of understanding is connected with freedom of enquiry; consequently, opinion should, as far as public security will admit, be exempted from restraint. ”