"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."
-Frank Herbert
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"Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.“
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"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality."
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"When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual."
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"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."
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"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."
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"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
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-Lemuel K. Washburn
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"I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl."
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"Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism."
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"Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand."
-Frederick II
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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
-John Woolman
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