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Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. ”
Never lose a holy curiosity. ”
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. ”
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. ”
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. ”
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. ”
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. ”
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. ”
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. ”
The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government. ”