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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 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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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. – William Hazlitt

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Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. – Marguerite Blessington

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