"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."
-Christopher Hitchens
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"Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.“
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"To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?"
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"I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised."
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"I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor."
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"The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition."
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"When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting."
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
-William Shakespeare
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"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
-Doris Lessing
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"It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave."
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
-Steve Jobs
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"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
-Robert E. Lee
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