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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Henry Huxley

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It is bad luck to be superstitious. – Andrew W. Mathis

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Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadnt the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us. – Henry Miller

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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. – Freda Adler

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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