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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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The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. – James A. Froude

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It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. – Proverb

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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 general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. – Francis Bacon

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